Memories

Yesterday I took a wander around the Cambridge Science Park, just over the other side of the A14 – there aren’t many places in this country that could sustain such a development, its certainly some kind of hub of biotech and electronics research, like a little outpost of silicon valley, which is why its called […]

Branded “Marketers looked at these companies and said they were succeeding because their brands were strong. In reality, the brands were strong because the companies were succeeding.”

A useful register of where to find caches of expensive equipment, if only it were easy to hack…

Someone pointed out this site – I’m assuming, given the context of the link, that they are a legal company. However, I can’t see from their website what they do. I guess the problem here is relying too much on brand awareness and not enough on clear statements of who you are or what you […]

This, I’m sure, will be appreciated by Grandi, amongst others: “testiculate [tes-tik-u-layt] vb (intransitive) to wave your hands about in wild but vague manner because you suspect you are talking bollocks.” (from Morph)

When old code dies “Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams of paper printouts of code for software that has left this mortal operating system.”

I, goth – by neilhudson

And theres some dodgy goffs taking over the world….gotta get me a copy of a non-specific ghost story…whens the album available lads? In a completely unrelated update on my washing machine palava, I went to the retail park tonight and spoke to two washing machine sales people who were both horrified that I wanted a […]

Holy white goods, batman “Thus, a rudimentary “Sabbath mode” was born.” (with apologies for my lack of understanding of the kosher system)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3971531.stm “It’s like going to a concert hall, except that you are virtually there.” I just hope they’ve done something about the bass resonse on their handsets…not to mention how they’re gonna organise a pit?