May/100
Watching AppleTV
Apple has long insisted that AppleTV is a "hobby", occupying a sort of nether-region between one of their fully-fledged product lines (a-la macbooks) and their accessory lines (a-la airports; the electronic wi-fi variety, not the plane-landing variety. Although both react equally poorly to bottles of water).
Feb/101
Pondering the iPad
Apple's much rumoured and discussed tablet has arrived and it's called the iPad. Much like the original iPhone on its launch, the reception has so far been a 50p mix of disappointment (from those who bought into the overblown rumours), adulation (from die-hard Apple fans), interest (from less hard-line geeks) and indifference (from everyone else). To my surprise I'm now sitting in the third camp after being well and truly disappointed immediately after watching the keynote.
Oct/090
The Best Snow Leopard Set-Up Tip: Don’t Read the Brochure
I recently set up a workgroup server for my company using OS X 10.6 Server on the mac mini that I'd previously used as a media server. I soon ran into a few problems - sorry this is OS X - features. And I didn't run into a few features I had actually expected.
Aug/090
Grid Grumbles
I've had a fair bit of interest in distributed computing before courtesy of SETI@home, Berkley's ancient signal analysis project. I signed up in the late 90's, did a whole 20 work units and got bored.
Aug/090
Murdoch’s New Bag
Rupert Murdoch, CEO and chairman of News Corporation has a new plan for the brave new world of online media. Like the RIAA and MPAA and their litigious cousins in other countries, on seeing his conventional media platforms start to dry up he's decided he's going to stop this new-fangled craze of free information and start charging for access to all of News Corp's online content.
Jul/090
Apple’s Bitter Little Pill?
Throughout my student days I'd always wanted a tablet PC. Ah the dream; being able to jot down notes in my erratic script and have it instantly converted into a beautifully type-faced document. Never again having to decipher September's hieroglyphic passages into something meaningful the night before an exam. Having a set of fully indexed, searchable notes would mean that I could have everything at my fingertips and be able to re-organise it on-the-fly.
Jul/090
First!
Yes, this is my first post.
I’m not particularly proud of it yet, but that could have something to do with the fact that there’s only one complete sentence so far. Oooh, look at that; two!
I’ve set up this website to function as my personal blog and also as a professional reference page. I decided on this because anything published to the Internet is likely going to find its way into the hands of potential employers and interested parties anyway so it might as well have all the information they might be interested in.