My Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) CDs have arrived
Read moreDo your ears a favour
It’s good to see that, despite the litigious nature of the RIAA (and recently their UK counterpart, too), there are people in the music industry who actually understand the value of letting people download their music. Often these people are …
Read moreMore on Google Talk and passwords
On catching up with the articles that appeared on Slashdot over the Bank Holiday weekend, I was particularly interested to find a link to this Live Journal entry. It’s by someone who shares my concerns about Google’s failure to open …
Read moreOpen, or just ajar?
Google’s new chat and VOIP service is based on the open XMPP protocol. So why have they closed their doors to interoperability with the existing XMPP network?
Read moreWould the real John Smith please step forward
As the previous post describes, I had a brief dalliance with Blogger before I set up WordPress to handle my blog. Although my primary reason for migrating was due to the feature set, Blogger didn’t really do themselves any favours …
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