Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols unleashes a scathing attack on Microsoft following the outage suffered by the London Stock Exchange:
It should have been a great day on the London Stock Exchange.
It was, the traders got to watch funny videos on YouTube all day instead of working.
Later the LSE gave the vague explanation, [...]
Eight months ago, Twitterlicious 2.1 was released. Since then, I’ve just not had the time to fix some critical bugs that have been bugging me and every other Twitterlicious user out there! This new 2.2 release aims to fix the two major outstanding bugs:
Twitterlicious is sometimes (for no apparent reason) starts to timeout every connection [...]
I encountered a strange bug today while working on a login page in .NET. This page differed from your run-of-the-mill login page by having the user select their username and then enter their password, so only had one text field on the page.
The bug meant that when the user pressed enter after typing in their [...]
Nullriver released their NetShare application onto the iTunes App Store last night, only to have it removed only a few hours later.
It’s surprising that this app was approved in the first place, since AT&T typically charge an extra $30 per month to allow tethering use in the US. Upon investigating the terms set out by [...]
If you’ve been using an original, unlocked iPhone with a SIM from an “unofficial” provider, then you haven’t been able to upgrade to the new 2.0 firmware because, well, it would lock your phone. You’ve had to sit by twiddling with the old 1.1.4 firmware while been reading reviews of the fantastic new applications and [...]
When I first took up squash, getting the right advice for equipment is very hard if you don’t have someone knowledgeable to talk to. This is especially the case if you’re not a member of a club. I’ll attempt to demystify the options and choices in buying squash gear, listing what I think is the [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV has had the most positive critical acclaim of any game ever made. And deservedly so, it offers one of the most immersive single player experience any game has every had, as well as brilliantly fun multiplayer. But in the uncompromising praise that has been lavished on the game, many of the [...]
Last year, I wrote about software I used regularly for work or for fun, my Essentials. Since then I’ve moved over from half-Mac-half-PC user to a full fledged member of the Mac society, but I still use a virtual Windows install for some of my work.
Here are my essentials in 2007, in no particular order:
OS [...]
My Year in Photographs
My most memorable photograph was this cityscape taken in Tokyo. The smog and buildings, especially the tall chimneys, reminds me of the opening shots of Blade Runner.
Following on with the Japan theme, this is a photograph of a temple in the historic town of Nikko, which we visited on a day [...]
Facebook has ironically caved into all the social pressure from disgruntled users and removed the ‘is’ they force on status updates. Before, you had to follow the not so flexible “[name] is…” format, and with just a few exceptions, only verbs could really follow on after that. Now, you can put anything you like after [...]
After a two month absence of Twitterlicious updates, I’ve decided to change the way the UI work and get rid of the needless tabs for replies and direct messages. Now, everything is in one list, and any replies or direct messages are highlighted accordingly — blue for replies, and brown for direct messages.
Some people also [...]
Stephen Fry now has a technology column with The Guardian, following on from the style of his blog which I linked to.
He talks about the value of style and substance in a digital device:
What do I think is the point of a digital device? Is it all about function? Or am I a [...]
These are my initial impressions of Leopard final build running on my MacBook Core Duo 2GHz with 2GB of RAM.
The new WLAN menu is a big improvement. It now scans for networks asynchronously, so you don’t have the agonising three second hang when you click on it. Apple Mail loads up instantly. I like how it [...]
Freshers week, the seven day partying extravaganza that university students relish. Any freshers week worth going to will end with a huge party with a great live band. Three years ago the University of Nottingham freshers week ended with GLC performing their satirical hip-hop. It was a fitting end to a superb week.
This year, the [...]
Its been a long road, taking almost six months of on-and-off work to complete, but now I feel comfortable in releasing the full release of Twitterlicious 2.0. No more betas or release candidates, this is the real deal!
Download Twitterlicious 2.0 final.
A brief recap about Twitterlicious:
Twitterlicious is a small app that makes using Twitter [...]
Here we are, the feature complete Twitterlicious 2.0 with four heavily requested features:
Checks for new versions of Twitterlicious on start-up and when requested. Remembers previously read items between instances. Much better error handling, now records error messages to a log file and correctly handles web connection problems. Toggle bubble notifications.
Also the last few bugs squashed:
Blank direct messages bug [...]
I’ve got a history with Toshiba laptops, my first laptop was a Toshiba Satellite 1800-100. Back then, laptops were rather depressing affairs, unless you remortaged your house for a nice IBM ThinkPad the alternatives were built like toys, had dodgy screens that made it look like you were on drugs if didn’t look at them [...]
Safari with Gmail is just one frustration after another, so I moved to Camino and I never thought I’d look back. But now I use Mailplane to access my Gmail e-mail, and there’s no compelling reason for me to stay on Camino anymore, so I thought I’d give Safari another try as my main browser.
Speed
Camino [...]
Amidst a lot of fanfare Nikon launches their new flagship camera, the D3 — its replacement for the venerable D2xs, and the D300 — the replacement for the incredibly popular D200.
A couple days ago, Canon upped the ante with their new EOS 40D, fixing the major complaints with the 30D and then one-upping the D200 [...]
This is biggest update since the initial 2.0 beta, you can now see replies and direct messages sent to you in seperate tabs, and respond to them.
This update was supposed to include an auto-update feature, however that still isn’t ready even for a beta and I thought the new features and bug fixes were important [...]