http://sliver.objective2k.com The last week... en-GB Copyright 2002-2007 Simon P. Lucy 2009-02-09T10:29:40Z 2009-02-09T10:29:40Z CoreBlog sliver@objective2k.com http://sliver.objective2k.com/286 I spent the weekend sneezing, coughing and drinking beer in Brussels at FOSDEM, in between there were a few sessions that proved interesting and irritating at the same time which is pretty typical for an open source conference. First off Philipp Kewi... 2009-02-09T10:29:40Z sliver@objective2k.com Technical http://sliver.objective2k.com/286 http://sliver.objective2k.com/285 I'm running the Joost client as my flu takes a grip. I'm not sentimental at all about software, its plastic and whilst it doesn't rust if the infrastructure behind it disappears then so does the service. It so happens that I prefer the experience of ... 2008-12-19T04:05:14Z sliver@objective2k.com Joost Life http://sliver.objective2k.com/285 http://sliver.objective2k.com/284 I received a lovely 419 email today which promises me US$100,000 as a way of repairing Nigeria's standing in the world. It strikes me that a better kind of recipient would be someone who had already fallen for a 419 or pyramid scheme, like Santander,... 2008-12-17T10:58:44Z sliver@objective2k.com Life http://sliver.objective2k.com/284 http://sliver.objective2k.com/283 This is a list with, if I can remember enough about the book, a short summary of my reaction to it, of the books I've read this year. The list is in no particular order. The choice was militated as much by availability in airports as anything else. T... 2008-12-01T13:53:50Z sliver@objective2k.com Books on the Bedside Table Life Reviews http://sliver.objective2k.com/283 http://sliver.objective2k.com/282 * Moderated comments is back on as I was bored with deleting all the spam. * The tone of Robert Peston's voice, if there was any good news it would sound as if it were the last bright flash of a doomed civilisation. * A delivery that should have arri... 2008-11-27T14:36:58Z sliver@objective2k.com Life http://sliver.objective2k.com/282 http://sliver.objective2k.com/281 The first company that I ever started was called Support pc Ltd (cool name I know), but that really only lasted a year of consultancy as the business plan it was meant to carry out didn't get any financial support. The second was Objective 2000 Ltd a... 2008-11-20T12:11:48Z sliver@objective2k.com Life Technical Joost http://sliver.objective2k.com/281 http://sliver.objective2k.com/280 I've finally started Un Lun Dun by China Miéville which is another in the I suppose fashionable genre of fantasy for children that adults like to read. And after the weighty length of Anathem I skipped through Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book which I gue... 2008-11-16T13:18:20Z sliver@objective2k.com Books on the Bedside Table Reviews http://sliver.objective2k.com/280