Reprocessed

I’m heading to Berlin for O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo next week. I’ll be speaking on a panel with Leisa Reichelt and Fred Oliveira: Moving from 1.0 to 2.0: Philosophies and...

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We have vacancies for developers at BBC Audio & Music Interactive at the moment. If you want to join a team building the data-driven future of the BBC’s National Radio...

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Two thursdays ago we were going to bed here at Patterson Acres, when we realised that the mail server that lives in the DIY server cabinet was making a funny...

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I’m freshly arrived home from Barcamp London, which was enormous fun. I’ll be posting up the slides, with notes, from my presentation (Everything I know about programming I learnt from...

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Ages ago, when we moved to London and had to downsize from a two-bed terraced house (a garden!) (our own personal stairs!) to a one-bed flat, I discovered that we...

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So, what the hell happened to me… Weeellllll, so, we were in Rome (don’t expect the link to work just yet… I haven’t written that yet), which took up time...

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With iSync 2.2, included with the Mac OS X 10.4.6 update, Apple have finally cracked a problem which has bugged me for ages: reliable sync with Nokia phones. Previously, most...

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I’ve been to see Matt B for a spot of catching up and falling-over-in-the-snow-with-my-feet-strapped-to-a-plank, aka Snowboarding. It was great, and I was hoping to be able to post pictures, but...

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One of the things that was most appealing about my first computer, besides the fact that my mate Mark had one, was the fact that the BBC ‘B’ was the...

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Update, 5 April 2006: Mac OS X 10.4.6 includes iSync 2.2, which supports the N70 out of the box, so you can ignore this if you’ve got it. You can...

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Update, 5 April 2006: Mac OS X 10.4.6 includes iSync 2.2, which supports the N70 out of the box, which means that you can happily remove the iSync Agent app,...

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So, the government wants us to carry biometric national ID cards does it? Arguments about how dangerous the proposals are have been made elsewhere (NO2ID, the people behind that have...

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I had no problems with using my old 7610 as a modem, using Ross Barkman’s excellent modem scripts. Yesterday I tried to set up my nice new N70 as a...

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So, I’ve been meaning to do this for about nine months now. I have a Debian box at home which is, in fact, an old PowerMac 7300. It has fans,...

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This is a little Applescript I’ve created to allow you to post URLs to your del.icio.us from within NewNewsWire 2. It’s the not the first of it’s kind, but it...

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If I leave my Powerbook alone while it’s streaming music to my stereo via an Airport Express (which I do a lot in my no-physical-music-media flat) then, once the display...

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The suggested setup routine for MT 3.1’s dynamic publishing gives instructions for use with .htaccess files. If, like me, you’ve got root access to some variety of unix box then...

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Amazon were a day late delivering my copy of the long-awaited Halo 2, but I’ve had a chance to spend a couple of hours in its company. I was expecting...

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Ah, the joys of being an iPod owner. Lately my iPod has taken to hanging once every couple of days, requiring a menu/play-pause reset to bring it out of its...

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Is anyone out there aware of any serious comparison of audio encoding formats (encoding, bit rate, that kind of thing) of the What Hi-Fi? persuasion? I’m only asking because I...

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Since my Mac got irredeemably cranky a month ago I’ve been unable to alter the junk mail status of messages (when I try, Mail.app crashes. When I restart Mail, the...

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Grumble. Having updated to Mac OS X 10.3.2 I can report that Mail.app still crashes every time I change something’s junk mail status. Which means I probably ought to do...

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Several of my apps keep crashing. Particularly nastily is the fact that Mail.app is crashing every time I update the junk mail status of a message. Most annoying. All the...

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