http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Stories of Perl, Solder, Gadgets and Tools en-us paul@anoasis.co.uk 2008-05-25T04:08:55+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2008/05/25/Tech/threadless_tshirts.html An interesting background article at Inc.com about Threadless, the t-shirt company, whose business model revolves around a social network; users submit and rate t-shirt designs, the well regarded get printed and the users lap them up. I have a few... 531@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ User Experience 2008-05-25T04:08:55+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2007/10/30/Tech/facebook_platform.html I think the facebook platform is turning into a double edged sword for Facebook. It doesn't seem to have hurt their valuation, but I detect a weakening of the trust factor which facebook were fostering with their closed profiles. In... 527@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Social Networking 2007-10-30T21:51:21+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2007/10/28/Tech/nokia_n95.html I've had the Nokia N95 for just over a month now and I thought I'd share my main observations. VoIP. Solid built in VoIP functionality. I've got it set up to automatically connect to my two SIP accounts when I'm... 526@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Gadgets 2007-10-28T00:00:47+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2007/08/09/Tech/a_blog_without_posts_or_comments_isnt_much_of_a_blog.html It was January when I last posted here. And now it is August. Useless. I switched off comments 2 years ago, re-enabled them a year and a half ago but didn't build a back-end to administer the spam out... 522@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Blogging 2007-08-09T03:54:02+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/08/28/Tech/in_a_nutshell.html My brother Andrew on Social Networking (Bebo, MySpace etc.) "It's ridiculous. They're not even real friends. You can phone up K T Tunstall on the buttons and ask her to be your friend." So, if anone fancies doing a bit... 515@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Social Networking 2006-08-28T02:23:07+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/07/09/Tech/net_neutrality.html I'm sure I'm late to the party with this one but I haven't noticed it blogged anywhere until spotting it at craigblog. Ted Stevens, Senior Senator for the state of Alaska (he's 83) and President Pro Tempore of the United... 513@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Internet Infrastructure 2006-07-09T23:38:31+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/05/20/Tech/blogboy.html Blogboy: Episode 1 made me laugh.... 510@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Blogging 2006-05-20T17:15:05+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/03/30/Tech/paying_for_past_cybercrimes.html I recently began looking for a new job. I haven't done this now for six years, and in the meantime I've been in the position of hiring manager many times. One of the first things I do after I decide... 506@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Search 2006-03-30T01:09:28+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/12/16/Tech/commenting_on_posts.html It seems like only, oh, 4 months and 29 days since I switched off comments and declared I'd fix them soon... Well, something took me tonight and I've cobbled together a rudimentary solution. I'll add RSS and other things over... 488@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Blogging 2005-12-16T04:56:19+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/12/13/Tech/an_end_to_the_search_oligopoly.html Happy Christmas Google, Yahoo! and MSN - Alexa (Amazon) are opening up search to those who don't have billions to spend on infrastructure. Interesting... [Via]... 484@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Search 2005-12-13T08:14:15+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/11/22/Tech/google_network_speculation.html Robert X. Cringely's column is always interesting, the most recent particularly so to network geeks. In Google-Mart he speculates that Google aims to get closer to their users by locating mini data-centers at peering points and connecting to each other... 482@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Internet Infrastructure 2005-11-22T00:16:35+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/11/15/Tech/build_your_own_pvr.html I haven't really followed developments with MythTV - a homebrew Personal Video Recorder project - since I wrote about it (DIY Tivo) back in June 2003. I have just noticed that there is now a bootable Knoppix Linux CD preconfigured... 479@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Linux 2005-11-15T06:34:59+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/11/04/Tech/gentoo_on_my_laptop.html After something like 14 years of suffering Windows (Various) and countless crashes I've ditched it. Never to return. 95% of my PC use is through a browser, the rest doesn't rely on proprietary formats like .doc or .xls. So, as... 476@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Linux 2005-11-04T05:05:23+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/08/31/Tech/google_uk_films.html Google have launched the UK version of the US film search. You can trigger it by searching for films, showtimes or the title of a currently released movie, e.g. the dukes of hazzard. It's all SMS enabled too. Naturally, you... 460@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Google 2005-08-31T18:56:19+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/08/31/Tech/conversation_with_a_blog_spammer.html Doh. Some idiot bought a script to make a web site then got in touch with one of the folks he was spamming because his script wasn't working. Hahaha. Turned out to be Scott at Feedster who he got in... 457@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/tech/ Blogging 2005-08-31T00:47:29+00:00