I found this quote in a June copy of the Irish Independent: “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.” Rich Cook

Well, it looks as if Photopoint has gone under. I host all my photos there and recently paid them $9.99 for a years subscription. Yeah, I know it ain’t much but to be honest if they were in trouble they should have charged more. It is a service I would have paid for. Luckily I [...]

For those at the last ever Broadcom Christmas Party, here are the photos. It’s really sad to see this company closing down but hopefully the staff will continue to have many more nights like last night.

Just had a thought. I was at a Christmas party last night taking lots of photos as usual. But then I have to rotate all those portrait shots – not too difficult thanks to IrfanView’s keyboard shortcuts but still annoying. Why haven’t camera manufacturers added a simple and cheap tilt sensor in the camera to [...]

Marconi’s first transatlantic radio transmission occured this day, 100 years ago. On other notes, Google now indexes 3 billion documents inc. 20 years of Usenet postings, images, and non-HTML documents (.doc, .pdf)

Build your own PC Entertainment Center? I recently bought a laptop for all my development needs in front of the TV (and my apartment isn’t big anough for a workstation). However, this has limited uses in terms of gaming, CD writing and DVD watching – no TV-out, CD writer or fast graphics chip, but then [...]