Hi, as you are likely to know, my journal is now at http://blog.digital-scurf.org/ and/or syndicated via digitalscurf. I am migrating the next bit now, which means that, unfortunately, you lot need to make an effort again :-(

I am migrating to OpenID identification and as such, my spanky new ( Read more... )

Hi, This is a quick note to remind people that I don't actually use this livejournal for making postings any more (indeed I haven't for really quite some time).

For those who haven't noticed it, my new blog is at http://blog.digital-scurf.org/ and is syndicated onto livejournal as digitalscurfI ( Read more... )

(Note, this is a political posting related to the UK and I'm not going to force myself to be impartial when I feel so strongly about the argument ( Read more... )

Today I was handed a wonderful document which included this piece of text:

(1) Our pre-sales collateral is not geared to supporting impersonal access to material - rather it requires high touch in order to provide technical data needed in the decision process;

Anyone telling me, succinctly and without use of buzzwords or management-speak, what ( Read more... )

I bet you I can't use these words when I'm blogging
I bet you I can't use these *bleep* words
It's not that they're *buzz* or *beep beep* controversial
Just that the *dinging* words are awfully strong.

You can't say *honk* when you're blogging;
Or *shot* or *twang* or *bleh*,
You can't even say I'd like to *creak* you one day ( Read more... )

Reminded by a talk on Guerilla marketing today, I'd like to take a moment to recommend that people who hack on dbus related stuff consider a few basic ideas for generalising services.

As an example... Colin Walters has been working on a CUPS thingy (blogged here) and he says:

Eggcups will respond to a D-BUS request for a password by popping up a ( Read more... )

So in Brazil I thought it'd be an amusing thing to do to introduce some people to a natty card game I know called Cambridge Standard Five Card Mao. It caught on really well there, and it seems that I have single-handedly caused the fall in output of a lot of Open-Source projects because now everyone is playing it. sfllaw seems to have been playing it at ( Read more... )

Last night I accepted a new rôle and have resigned from my position at MIPS. I'm very excited about my new position and I'd like to thank everyone who helped me to get noticed.

We thought they were being progressive and forward thinking, but no, they just took ten steps back.

Continuing in the same vein as this I would like to offer one $BEER/$BUG token to anyone who can give me a rune to tell mozilla-thunderbird to render the text/plain component of a multipart/alternative section in preference to the text/html component of it.