http://www.junklight.com/thoughts/ An irregular column of passing thoughts about this that and the other. en-us 2007-08-09T21:33:06+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000174.html Well, we have moved house again. Something that will come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has known me more than 5 minutes. This one is definitely the best yet - you can catch the odd glimpse of... Mark 2007-08-09T21:33:06+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000173.html Two idiots drive a car into an airport. Presumably having seen one to many action movies (in movies of course cars explode magnificently on impact). I wouldn't be surprised to find out they thought of this plan earlier this... Mark 2007-06-30T19:21:19+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000172.html It is that time of year again - upgrade time! TV adverts for the n95 - in particular 'it's what the computer has become' suckered me in and so I phone Orange. As it happens Abby has been complaining... Mark 2007-06-06T16:23:25+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000171.html Bit quiet on the blog front because I have been working hard to get a release of our product out, followed by illness. Today I am watching things run (a lot of web archiving involves watching processes run across... Mark 2007-01-31T17:21:36+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000170.html http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/01/macfuse-fuse-for-mac-os-x.html This is really cool (well it is if you are a Mac owner). FUSE is kernel extension that allows the development of user space files systems. And in English - well basically it lets people write things that... Mark 2007-01-12T09:22:38+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000169.html Hmmm, still not sure about firewire although I now have three firewire devices - an iSight, an external disk and an audio interface (I will get round to making some music one of these days). I foolishly tried daisy... Mark 2007-01-08T10:17:11+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000168.html Digital Rights Management is the last stand of an industry that relies on physical distribution, and accounting methods based around that distribution, to try and extend their old business model into a new digital world where all the rules... Mark 2007-01-08T10:11:06+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000167.html I don't support the death penalty at all, I think that it reduces us to barbarians and there is little or no evidence that it provides any deterrent. The death of Saddam was even more despicable though - as... Mark 2007-01-05T14:03:08+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000166.html You have also got to love the fact that someone has bought the keyword 'spam' so that you get advertising for some food product in your spam folder in google mail...brilliant!... Mark 2007-01-05T12:27:33+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000165.html My explorations of google services, coupled with the timely release of their pop retrieval mechanism means that Google Mail and Google Reader are looking rather attractive. I have just taken the step of turning NetNewsWire and Apple Mail off... Mark 2007-01-05T11:51:55+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000164.html You have probably noticed by now that I don't really do reviews. I guess I don't consume my media in an analytical enough way to discuss it clearly afterwards. However I still need to enthuse about things I have... Mark 2007-01-04T10:04:10+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000163.html Every so often I have a quick trawl through my spam folder to make sure nothing has been tagged as spam that I should have received. As I do so I am filled with incredulity - firstly at the... Mark 2007-01-02T12:44:53+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000162.html One of the good things about trying out another platform is it breaks you out of your comfort zone. Sometimes that is a bad thing: a computer without Quicksilver feels desperately broken to me. Sometimes however you get a... Mark 2006-12-30T18:48:58+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000161.html The Creative Commons is a wonderful thing. Thanks to the tireless promotion by the likes of Cory Doctorow and many others there is a lot of very high quality content out there (including Corys excellent books): Peter Watts writes... Mark 2006-12-28T10:32:58+00:00 http://www.junklight.com/weblog/archives/000160.html Well the children didn't get up until after 6 and I only spent an hour assembling things so all in all not that bad from my point of view. Of course despite having lots of new toys everyone wants to... General Mark 2006-12-25T10:25:12+00:00