Author Archives: Donncha

Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes on the Culture – ooh, excellent, I’ve read every Culture related book I can find and these notes are well worth reading for fans!

Thanks Ed for the link, your comments are much appreciated.

Yes, Blogstreet is quite cool!

In the beginning..

Stuart pointed me at a new “who’s linking to you” search engine but when I tried to sign up I noticed their terms of use and privacy policies were missing. Will I give a real email addres? Will I sign up even?

The Two Towers – first review!

Zimran looks at phone+camera combos. Vodafone sent me a promotional mail this morning offering a EUR100 discount on 3 such phones.. hmm.

The Object-Oriented Evolution of PHP – history of PHP, good read.

Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system – with lots of nice screenshots too!

The Top 5 Misconceptions About LindowsOS – you have to run it as root? gah! what security is that?!

The Register reports the first MS Stinger smartphone can’t dial up from your contact book! How did that get past the bug testers?