Last night Chris and I went along to see Remember Remember play at Glasgow’s Apple store. Up until recently the band consisted solely of Graeme singing, and playing guitar and all manner of percussive instruments and random noise making devices. Aided by a pretty impressive collection of effect pedals for building up loops [...]
The weekend just gone saw myself and fellow Osmosoftonians Jeremy, Jon, Phil W and Simon attend our first FOSDEM in Brussels. And I must say I found the event extremely enjoyable in addition to being highly informative and likely the friendliest conference I’ve ever attended.
Before I continue I feel I need to [...]
Twenty five years ago today my friend Greg was the first British DJ to mix live on UK national television. He’d already established himself as a DJ, had been playing for a few years by then and is still spinning now.
Well done Greg, and keep on!
My device program N810 arrived about a month ago, and I have to say that so far I’m very impressed. I got to see a prototype courtesy of Quim Gil last October at the BT event he spoke at, and between then and my N810 arriving have had my fingers crossed in the [...]
Cleaning up my inbox I came across a message sent last October by Roger Pugh to the Classic Computing mailing list titled I’ve gone too far:
“This morning my wife complained to me that every time she opened a door
to a cupboard something with qwerty written on it falls out !!!”
Amazing. And now I don’t [...]
As a strong advocate of open source it’s a really great time to be working at BT and I have high hopes for 2008. A number of current initiatives are not only advancing BT’s use of open source software, but also resulting in a deeper and more widespread understanding of the principles and [...]
What do these all have in common? Well, they formed the basis of a rather geeky and highly informative long weekend. Last Thursday I made it to the first Scotlug talk in a wee while, which was given by Canonical’s Kevin McDermott and was on the subject of Bazaar – a distributed [...]