It's the end of the decade in a year and a bit, but as we all seem happier dealing with the patterns numbers make rather than mathematical precision, here are a few of my thoughts about the ten years that have just passed (the decade with the slightly embarassing name)... The decade when the internet … Continue reading The noughties
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I received a letter from David Cameron yesterday. In it, he told me that it was very important that the Conservative Party won my constituency for them to form the next government. I'm lucky enough to live in Richmond, in south-west London. Other than being on the flightpath to Heathrow, it's a fairly idyllic place … Continue reading A brief political interlude:
After many years of being reasonably smug about how little email spam I receive (which I put down to having a relatively uncommon name and, over the years, being relatively careful about where I use my email address online), I have found in recent months a big increase. That escalation has been due to my … Continue reading Spam 2.0
At the end of 2009 a publication that has an important significance in my own life will fold. Guardian Technology (previously Online, etc) will be published in print form for the final time on December 14th. The section has been important to my career because I found two jobs through the paper, although tellingly, the … Continue reading Guardian Technology – Rest in Bits
At 6.01pm on Wednesday November 4th I became a father. After a rather long labour, and an emergency c-section, Oscar James entered the world. We are pulling together a few artefacts that, later in life, Oscar will be able to look at to gain an insight into the world into which he was born in … Continue reading Thinking about the future…
An article in The Australian from Tuesday (heck, dontcha just love the global world we live in) talks about SaaS provider NetSuite rejecting Google Apps on the grounds of Google's terms of service regarding mining of data. This shows one of the key issues that Cloud/SaaS is starting to open up - that of information … Continue reading Changing models of security…
Well, not too often that a blog post will be titled in homage to a song by Russ Abbot.... I spent last Thursday at Google Atmosphere, a day long, business-focused event looking at cloud computing held just down the road at the Bloomsbury Street Hotel. Key speakers included journalist Nicholas Carr, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, … Continue reading I love a party with an Atmosphere…
A few days whilst I moved DNS around to enable a Google Apps environment on my domain. Learned more about A and MX records and CNAMES than I could ever wish for... but all now seems to be up and running again.
The new phone has got me thinking about how visions of the technology of the future go through a strange pattern of appearing to be wild and outlandish, and then suddenly somewhat quaint and of their own time. I've never really been much of a science fiction fan (for those of you who are not … Continue reading Visions of the future
After over 12 years, for the first time I have bought myself a new personal mobile phone that wasn't built by Nokia. The main driver for me to change was, in the end, the availability of Spotify Mobile, and that combined with my increasing use of services from Google has led me to an HTC … Continue reading Ditching Nokia…
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