Back in Taipei after China was Sunday (4th December) so I slept - I wouldn't say I had jetlag, but certainly the previous 5 days had included 6 flights through 8 time zones, with not nearly enough natural daylight inbetween, and had worn me down. I did finally spot Taipei's tallest building (and for a while the world's tallest building) from my ( Read more... )

We've got a couple of SMARTBoards in our new meeting rooms. They're quite nifty, acting as giant touch pads. Unfortunately I had trouble installing their software. Specifically the error ( Read more... )

I blame Ric Parkin, of course, for introducing me to the Association of C and C++ Users who promote professionalism in programming, and not just C and C++! Ric started hosting Cambridge meetings and talks at DisplayLink, and succeeded in helping to recruit new DisplayLink team members from the group. Every year ACCU organise a conference, usually ( Read more... )

It is nice to be out of stealth mode:

Newnham Research chip does away with monitor cable, and could help see off those costly proprietary laptop docking stations

Ndiyo have setup a 4 terminal Internet cafe in Fultola in Bogra, Bangladesh with our Nivo ultra thin clients, one PC running Linux to serve everything, and a 3G / Edge mobile phone. Crazy talk, you say? Mobile phone Internet access is cheaper than ADSL out there.

Thanks to Q for the link, and for helping to make it happen ( Read more... )

Time for another anti-Microsoft rant from a developer.

Today's rant is about adoint.h, which is appears to be included by windows.h. It contains the following two lines:

typedef interface ADOError Error;
typedef interface ADOErrors Errors;

This nicely buggers up randomly if you attempt to define "Error" or "Errors" differently for your own use.

Somehow I managed to wakeup after illuminoid even though he arrived back from the club after me. We went down for breakfast about 8:30 to find many of our group up and about too. There was a superb range of breakfasts available and I went for a bowl of cereals and milk, a couple of small pastries, and a glass of orange juice ( Read more... )

Hi, from 'sunny' Bergen in Norway ( Read more... )