Category Archives: Computing

Improving Freecycle

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Tim

I’ve been a member of our local Freecycle mailing list for a few years, successfully using it to offload and acquire various items, from a double futon bed to an mp3 player. In 2006, Giles Turnbull blogged about Freecycle’s shortcomings, … Continue reading →

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The Web Versioning genie needs to be re-bottled

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Tim

Today I got embroiled in a debate with Pete and Brian on Twitter about the term Web 2.0 and its increasing meaninglessness. This was only a few days after jumping on an old school friend’s use of the term, citing … Continue reading →

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Twitter Endgame?

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Tim

As I write this, I’m trying (and failing) to load twitter.com/home. Oh – it just timed out. According to Is Twitter Down? it’s not down, but I can’t get to it. There have been no updates on my timeline for … Continue reading →

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UK ISPs in new depths of customer hatred

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Tim

BT, Virgin and Talktalk broker deal with Phorm.com, who intercept internet traffic, set anonymous cookies and deliver targeted ads… There are lots of comments on this Guardian article, including this one from martinusher: I had a quick look at this … Continue reading →

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If you build it (right), they will come (on any old platform, even a phone)

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Tim

I’m rather enamoured of OpenID, the really neat, decentralised way to log in to any OpenID-supporting web site with one username/password. Simultaneously, I’ve had a Vox account since I was invited to try the beta pre-launch. It was moderately interesting … Continue reading →

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Mobile GMail, Twitter and why I’m no better than Crackberry addicts

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Tim

At the company Christmas meeting/lunch/disco in 2006, I had the pleasure of sitting at the same table as one of our directors. During the meal he checked his email on his Blackberry (nicknamed “Crackberry” due to the addictive nature of … Continue reading →

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12 days until BarCamp Bristol

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Tim

Because not everyone has time to read mailing lists or check Upcoming, and one of the rules of BarCamp is that you do blog about BarCamp, here we go. BarCamp Bristol (Bristol’s first) will be taking place on October 12th-13th … Continue reading →

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Skillswap report

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Tim

On Tuesday I spoke at the February 2007 edition of Bristol Skillswap at The Watershed. I think it was the first time I’d given a public presentation, though I’ve given a few talks at work. There were about 25 people … Continue reading →

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One Day In History: not quite Web 2.0?

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Tim

The History Matters project is encouraging the ordinary citizens of the UK to blog about their everyday lives tomorrow, October 17th 2006. On first inspection, it sounded like a fine idea. I was all ready to kick the dust from … Continue reading →

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Bradford-on-Avon geeks meet-up

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Tim

I made the 8-mile, 50-minute (walk, train, walk) journey from Bath to Bradford-on-Avon last night for the inaugral Bradford geeks meet-up, organised by Giles Turnbull. The other attendees were: Steve Johnston – Google Consultant (the world’s first, no less; he … Continue reading →

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