.co.uk in a timewarp
Yesterday El Reg ran a story about how UK companies can’t recruit IT talent, and lack the imagination to update their working practices to what people find acceptable this century. It attracted quite a...
View ArticlePortable Computing
I’ve had a laptop for years. The current MacBook is smaller, better made and more robust and portable than its predecessors. But it’s still rather heavy, useless in full daylight, uncertain how it...
View ArticleLimbo
Yesterday late morning, I suddenly found myself unable to connect to the ‘net. This was sudden death: I’d been on earlier, and just had a break of maybe 15 minutes. After a couple of tests for “usual...
View ArticleMobile phone as modem
After my recent scare, I’ve decided I definitely want to enable myself to connect through the ‘phone, and I’ve been playing with using the mobile phone as modem. That, I assumed, should be...
View ArticleTraffic Server Summit (by ‘net)
I spent two days last week at the trafficserver summit. Or rather, two evenings. The summit was held in Silicon Valley (hosted by linkedin), while I remained at home in Blighty with a conferencing...
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