http://saulcozens.co.uk Musings and dabblings in anything vaguely related to the web Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:44:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Angela Smith, I am writing to you again regarding the Digital Economy Bill that is currently being passed through Parliament.  I am extremely concerned that this extremely contentious and far-reaching legislation seems to be being hurried through Parliament with no real scrutiny. This legislation will mean that ordinary law abiding citizens ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2010/03/18/dont-rush-through-extreme-web-laws/ I have been getting gradually more and more angry about the Digital Economy Bill that the UK government are going to try and pass in the next few months.  I have been moved so much that I have used writetothem.com to write to Angela Smith my local MP. Dear Angela Smith, Could ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/12/02/a-letter-to-my-mp-about-the-digital-economy-bill/ 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 ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/08/01/aspire-acer-revo-ubuntu-boxee/ I'm as mad as hell at Check Point.  They've managed to turn my MacBookPro into a brick. This evening I decided to get around to encrypting my MacBook's harddisk in accordance with our company security standards.  When we bought this first batch of MacBooks we thought hard about how we woud ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/07/28/as-secure-as-a-brick/ 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.  ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/05/07/digital-britain-discussion-at-geekup-sheffield/ 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 ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/03/24/ada-lovelace-day-ary-lou-jepsen/ 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 ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/02/20/pub2point0/ 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 ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/01/13/ever-wondered-why-you-need-to-set-the-photocopier-to-70/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="224" caption="FOWA Dublin 2009"][/caption] This is a shameless plug for FOWA Dublin 2009.  By putting this logo on my blog, Carsonified say they might give me free tickets. It's shameless because I have no shame in promoting the FOWA events after attending and really enjoying FOWA London 2008. http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/01/12/shameless-plug-for-fowa-dublin-2009/ This crazy train of thought started after our company had a Christmas outing to the local Laser Quest.  As a bunch of geeks, plenty of people were working out the technology and one person, Pip, just said in passing 'surely we could make it better by applying some new technology'. That ... http://saulcozens.co.uk/2009/01/10/action-replay-for-laser-quest/