I think my Sister is a secret agent. She claims to be just a humble scientist working for Manchester University, but the evidence just doesn’t add up. She is mysterious, She is very hard to get hold of, always jetting off conferences all over the place and she is a lethal killing machine cpable of [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2007’
The Open Source can of worms
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the whole Open Source thing. In the UK at the moment there is a massive push for organisations to make use of FOSS (Free Open Source Software), which is a great idea in principle, but is it always appropriate.
The company I work for does a lot of work [...]
Go on, give me a Mac
So far in my life I have not been a big fan of Macs, but the new ads are funny. On the other hand my bad experience was a old G4 that was no longer suitable for the job in hand… anyway the new ones look delicious, I wish my laptop was a white slab [...]
