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There was a federal election in Australia, just last weekend: the 24th of November. This election went a lot better than the last few years worth of elections. John Howard...
Read ArticleThomas Watson from IBM said that he could foresee a need for perhaps five computers worldwide, and we now know that that figure was wrong, because he overestimated by four....
Read ArticleHas a century of compulsory voting and a decade of international neo-conservatism finally killed off the last vestiges of original thought in governmental policy? It certainly feels that way.
Read ArticleSo the big deal is mashups and the massive amounts of data collected by the services being mashed. And this is becoming known as ‘Megadata’. Lots and lots you can...
Read ArticleIn his book The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander states that people should work where they live. I had some trouble with this at first as it’s pretty difficult...
Read ArticleOne word that always causes me to shudder: ‘Content.’ This is now apparently the standard word that people in the software industry use to refer to that which is created...
Read ArticleWhy bother reading long posts about esoteric language features that your language doesn’t provide, or even if it does, it’s not a good idea to use too often?
Read ArticleI don’t believe in the Internet. It’s a conspiracy of network engineers… with a lot of pigeons.
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