There’s a nasty little flame war going on over Atom, again. I must admit that I agree with Russ – PUT and DELETE, whilst in the HTTP spec are not something you will implement unless you’re going to claim full HTTP 1.1 compliance. I wrote my own http transport for j2me (not midp) and I [...]

Here’s a lovely story about the use of modern day technology to track, monitor and hopefully save the endangered Maui’s Dolphin in New Zealand. The Maui Dolphin is a subspecies of the (also rare) Hectors Dolphin which I swam with in Akaroa, off the coast of Christchurch. You could see the dolphins surging in with [...]

This collection of phrases commonly seen in research papers is particularly appropriate – I was here late Friday night working on an abstract and this week I’m supposed to be producing a poster. All within the first month of the PhD!

Eclipse v3 M7 is the third Eclipse release I’ve tried. Everyone keeps raving about it but I still haven’t actually used it. As a user, the first problem you encounter is downloading the feckin’ thing. After going to the correct download mirror you’re presented with this choice: R-2.0-200206271835 13-Jan-2003 572.7M of files inside R-2.0.1-200208291828 13-Jan-2003 [...]

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Maybe Vodafone never wanted AT&T Wireless anyway… Vodafone shareholder are certainly grateful their bid failed.

Christian Lindholm mentions the amount of multi-tasking he noticed amongst E-Tech attendees. Personally, I’m pretty sure that anyone with a laptop in front of them at a meeting isn’t really listening. I’ve been in my fair share of meetings where I’ve moved the pointer around the screen in endless circles to avoid listening to the [...]

ideasasylum seems to be getting a little slow these days and I’ve really outgrown my current hosting provider. So, as soon as financial circumstances allow, I’m moving to a virtual server which is simply a slice of a much bigger server but appears to me like a full server: 3Gb of disk space, full Linux [...]

In the latest issue of MIT Technology Review the editorial discusses the creative thought process. Some innovators found conversation with their students to be creatively stimulating. Others used a long drive or commute on the underground. “Perhaps more telling is that despite being at the forefront of their technology, nobody cites technology as a tool [...]

I also forgot to mention that the pubs in England close ridiculously early and indeed there was a pub yesterday which wasn’t open at all. Huh? What’s that all about? It’s ironic that the pub which was closed was an Irish bar – I just don’t think they really understood the concept. Oh, and the [...]