May 2009
[InfoWeek] Anti-U.S. Hackers Infiltrate Army... →
[MySociety] What the government doesn’t understand... →
[CNET] Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse... →
[NYT] Google’s Top Policy Executive to Join Obama... →
So… who’s watching the FA Cup on Saturday morning?
Obama announces plan for cybersecurity chief. Vint Cerf and @rodbeckstrom tell me what they think: http://bit.ly/uALBy
fucksticks. Sent that last message from the wrong account! Still, it’s a good column: you should read it.
Victor Keegan: We all pay far too much for our phones: mobile operators must answer the call to save money http://bit.ly/FEjos
Me writing about the future of 3D gaming. http://bit.ly/5VVxG
Not really impressed by Google Wave - it’s a bit like email, IM and social networking on steroids. But steroids are usually bad things!
Тетрис!
Craigslist boss Jim Buckmaster tells me ‘we’re the victim of a witch-hunt’ http://bit.ly/106MOH
[DataCenterKnowledge] Apple Planning $1 Billion... →
[AP] Bit of a thinkpiece on Tim Armstrong's... →
Plotting many things at once. I think my mojo is back, in a funny sort of way.
[AP] EU pushes music industry to open up online... →
Because throwing hurtful, personal insults is all undone by saying “I apologise!”. Sometimes the web is full of utter pricks, isn’t it?
All this talk of sunny bank holidays in Brighton makes me homesick. We’re enduring the foggy SF summertime, but will be BBQing nonetheless.
On the way to Deluxe. Bus full of remarkably pungent people today..
You’re all invited to our second attempt at Thursday Night Drinks: beer, cocktails, jazz and pizza. Deluxe Club, Haight St 7-10pm.
Just spoke to Jamie @eucalyptusapp - his iPhone app was rejected because you could potentially download the Kama Sutra: http://bit.ly/wv612
[WSJ] Skype gets the Oprah treatment →
[FT] View from the Top: Eric Schmidt of Google →
[Reuters] Yahoo eyes social networking... →
Grand Teton Amber ale, beautifully hoppy ++
Love this… “Metallic Attraction: Kung-fu Cyborg says why can’t a machine have love and hate like a man?” http://bit.ly/ccz2N
[SEL] Forget Kumo — will Microsoft’s new search... →
[NewYorkObserver] Portfolio.com to Get Lazarus... →
[Twitter] Does Twitter Hate Advertising? →
[Telegraph] Hulu set for September UK launch →
[AdAge] Gawker's Nick Denton: 'Original Reporting... →
[ArsTechnica] 4chan, eBaum's World carpet bombing... →
Just ended up having a five minute phone conversation about football with somebody who called the wrong number. Heh!
My adventures in sausage: http://bit.ly/1alX5Y
On the latest Tech Weekly podcast, I speak to Steven Spielberg about gaming. No, really. http://bit.ly/jF2d3
Sausage is all we do →
Back in the land of living after 4 days in the badlands. Hit five states, lots of geology, stuff from space and did 1200 miles on the road.
Safely ensconced in the googleplex.
Twitter seems to have removed my favourite way of finding new ppl via @replies. Boo. Every recent change seems contrary to the way I use it.
COCK OFF!
Could concern over the energy used by cloud computing turn it into a middle class guilt trip of the future? http://bit.ly/13KNUU
[FT] Micro-payments considered for WSJ website →
[BBC] Risky space mission to fix Hubble →
[Reuters] EU to find Intel anti-competitive →
Here’s one that made me gawp. Danish schools are getting ready to trial internet access during exams: http://bit.ly/142lw1
Been practising Rage Against The Machine tunes on ukulele. Amusingly incongruous, but making the songs work properly is proving difficult.
[ThomasCrampton] Thanks, NYT... you erased my... →
[InternetNews] ICANN Heading to a Fork in the Road →
[Stars&Stripes] No options ‘off the table’ for... →
Watching Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty is a bit weird when you consider that the mutineers evolved into a society of rapists.