18 Wednesday Nov 2009
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Originally uploaded by Phil & Catherine Wilkins
Photos from Gomez’ gig at Southampton university on my flickr site. Admittedly taken with the Samsung Soul mobile, which to be frank isn’t that great for this sort of thing.
A reasonable gig, but I’ve seen Gomez perform a lot better. he big surprise of the night was Frightened Rabbit, the support band who put in a very impressive support set. This is a band with lots of potential.
12 Thursday Nov 2009
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12 Thursday Nov 2009
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a rather good article about the frustrating and crazy behaviour of the media industry (film, TV & music) towards innovation and technology. Although a lot of this is not new thinking it is well expressed, and also highlighted in the light of the fact that recent findings have shown Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) actually have helped advertising not hindered it.
08 Sunday Nov 2009
05 Thursday Nov 2009
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That was nice of Google UK – a logo in my honour. Well not quite, its a relative – cookie monster, and its Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary.
21 Wednesday Oct 2009
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The Prodigy are giving away a free download of a remix of the title track of their recent album ‘Invaders Must Die’ from their official website, Theprodigy.com. The free download will be availbe until the 28th Octber – so get in there quickly.
17 Thursday Sep 2009
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16 Wednesday Sep 2009
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Zach Galifiana interviews Charlize Theron to hilarious effect, although Charlize does try to play along.
08 Tuesday Sep 2009
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Security is a challenging area within software design and development. The fact that Microsoft have been pushing hard for a couple of years now with the high emphasis on security in their applications and still notable vulnerabilities show up is simple testament the the challenges.
So it is good to see that the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University have made a booklet/paper freely available that describes some Security Design Patterns (can be found here). I’ve not yet read all of it – but the content I have reviewed is good solid guidance.
02 Wednesday Sep 2009
For Murray Walker fans (aka Muddly Talker) there is some fun news. The children’s animation – Roary the Racing Car which is narrated by the great Stirling moss is to get a special voice for a couple of episodes. The animation based on some racing cars at Silver hatch circuit already has the humorous contributions from Peter Kay as big Chris the mechanic. More info at the BBC News here.
