Just been reading about FaceBook’s new initiative to Open Source their datacentre designs – opencompute.org. Interesting stuff, although I can’t actually see that much thats original – cut out the stuff on the mother boards you don’t need – it is a sort of cut down server element – like a blade but on chilli […]
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iPad and the BBC
In the morning we normally have the BBC news on while we are getting ready. At about 08:20 this morning they did a piece about the iPad, well I say ‘a piece’, it was a hatchet job. Technology reporter Rory Cellan-Jones, who looked quite flustered and confused for some reason, had a bunch of pad […]
Another one of those ‘wouldn’t it be great’ posts…
With the ready availability of relatively inexpensive cloud storage, isn’t it about time some one (COUGHapple) had a small server for the home (COUGHtimecapsule) that had some intelligence to store just enough of your files that were regularly used to make them quick to retrieve (lets call it a cache for want of a better […]
WAC=MSX+30 years?
Thirty years after a bunch of far eastern companies (and other) got together to develop a common application platform, a bunch of far eastern (and other) companies have got together to develop a common application platform. The snappily named Wholesale Application Community is a consortium of mobile phone manufacturers and service providers that are banding together […]
New Year 2010
Well it’s the morning after the night before and I have awoken on my sofa. The day is bright and there’s a sprinkling of snow on our cars that looks like icing sugar sprinkled from a giant sieve in the same way as mince pies have. The start of a new year and a new […]
Microsoft’s Stores
A recent gallery of pictures on CNET show’s the similarities of the Microsoft store ‘idea’ to the Apple Stores (I put that word in quotes because I don’t think Microsoft have had an original idea since Gates thought it would be a good ‘idea’ to charge for software). One difference that strikes me however is […]
MS Store opened today
Well not content with attempting to ripoff everything else that Apple does, our friends in Redmond have opened a retail store. Consider the irony then that first member of staff to meet customers as they came in the door was this person looking the antithesis of an Apple Store staff member: Now, I am not […]
Lights in the sky – UFO triangle phenomenon
Anyone who knows me well will tell you I am quite a sceptical guy. I don’t believe in any form of mysticism including (but not exclusively) any religion, magic, psy or anything else that cannot be explained by science. I will entertain the idea that science does not have all the answers. Breakthroughs are being […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if we all just got along and worked together?
In my utopian dream world (something along the same lines as the one dreamed by Gene Roddenberry), when an abundant free energy source was found and we no longer driven by commercial concerns, everyone and everything would just work with each other to make the world (and space) a better place. Standards would be open […]