I’ve received an Aspire Acer Revo on Friday and have spent a few hour s so far this weekend installing:
Ubuntu
Boxee
Thanks to Liam Green-Hughes fantastic guide, it’s been relatively painless. I didn’t need to do the crazy-assed graphix driver installaiton either – I just used EnvyNG to get and install the correct Nvidia drivers.
I now have [...]
I had a great time at geekup Sheffield last night. The format had changed from a bunch of presentations (mostly by techies about technical issues) to a much more freeform conversation. This was extremely succesful and looked a lot like what I’ve been trying to do with my Pub2.0 thing. So well done Geekup!
In order [...]
I signed up to Suw Charman-Anderson’s Ada Lovelace Day pledge quite a while ago and ever since I have been trying to work out who I should blog about.
You see the brief is to pick a woman in technology that I admire and blog about them to try and provide more women with the role-models, [...]
It’s actually been over a year since I attempted to get loads of Sheffield web people together to chat about web stuff. So, after numerous proddings by Chris, I have set a date for the first one of 2009.
The format is simple, there is no format.
It’s a completely unstructured social event. Turn up, eat, drink [...]
I just thought I share something with you…
Have you ever noticed that if you fold a sheet of A3 paper in half it is the same size as a sheet of A4. This fact is what implies the aspect ratio of ISO standard paper (A3, A4, A5, etc).
If a piece of A4 has long and [...]
I just joined the OpenID foundation in order to take part in the current board elections.
I’m reading the mailing list traffic with interest trying to figure out which candidates I should support, which ones are going to provide the OpenID with the right mix of skills and experience to make it have even greater success [...]
This weekend at Sheffield BarCamp I saw a presentation by Tim Nash about how some SEO providers are achieving high rankings using web spam.
He explained, quite eloquently, how a technique called Markov Chains is used to create alternative copies of some source content that, to a search engine, has the same keyword profile, but cannot [...]
I have a friend who works in the innovation team of one of the big banks. He recently asked an open question about the future of retail banking. I’ve had the questions running round my head for past few weeks and feel that I have some thoughts that are fermented enough to be aired. Aden, [...]