Technology
Help! Is there a doctor in the network???
Posted by Adam Horner on Thursday, 30 September 2010I don't normally do posts about my work, but this is such a good read, such an accessible technical article and so relevant to so many of us that I couldn't resist.
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No comment from Fry
Posted by Adam Horner on Friday, 28 May 2010Glorious essay from Mr Fry on the tribalism in technology. Read it, then sit back and think before you even contemplate writing anything about it.
I am the Tech Pragmatist
Posted by Adam Horner on Friday, 1 May 2009Following on from my Fireballer post, the arrival of my t-shirt yesterday (which thankfully the wife approved of -- “It is a nice geek t-shirt”) reminded me to post a little update. After moving house, I still have no home internet connection thanks to the great ineptitude of BT (more on which later), so it is something of a testament to my determination that I have followed through on the musings in my fireballer post.
Fireballer
Posted by Adam Horner on Tuesday, 7 April 2009Fry on spellchecking
Posted by Adam Horner on Sunday, 15 March 2009"… if you’re in front of a computer screen all day, then the images and icons that you’re manipulating are somehow ever present in your mind. And so you get rather comic moments where if you see a misspelled word in a book when you’re reading a book, you wonder why it hasn’t got a wavy underline from the spellchecker."
-- Stephen Fry (source article)
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Robotic Dance
Posted by Adam Horner on Sunday, 18 January 2009Tags:
Fry, worth reading
Posted by Adam Horner on Tuesday, 16 December 2008"At the extremes humans can love or hate. I have raved, screamed, shrieked and cursed when my iPhones, Macs, iPods, Airport base units and Apple TVs have betrayed me, let me down. I expect so much of them. But it is nothing to the venomous fury, disbelieving rage and overmastering contempt that floods my being when attempting to get function, sense and use out of a Windows, especially a Vista machine. I made quite a spectacle of myself over this very issue not long ago."
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David Pogue on his readers, and their reaction to his mauling of the Blackberry Storm
Posted by Adam Horner on Friday, 5 December 2008Ray Ozzie at Microsoft
Posted by Adam Horner on Sunday, 30 November 2008An interesting article on Ray Ozzie, internet computing (or cloud computing as many want to call it), power shifts at Microsoft, and plenty of asides on what we should see coming out of Redmond over the next couple of years.
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