Fresh Stuff Occasionally
Anthony refers to a piece by Joel about the lack of a linker in .Net Almost everything in Joel’s article could be said about Java too. At least with Java you get true platform independence in exchange for your pain
A dead, 50-tonne sperm whale has exploded in a busy street in Taiwan, showering passers-by in blubber, blood and innards. The 17-metre whale died after beaching itself and was being hauled to a research station through Tainan City on Wednesday on a flat-bed truck. Thar she blows!
I have decided to keep a running total of the number of CDs that I have not purchased due to copy protection. It is just over there, on the side of the page. I have started with a quick estimate since I haven’t been keeping records. I will keep better track from now on. This…
We went for dinner at the Harbour View Hotel in The Rocks last night. They had a sign on the door advertising that they had a PubNet wireless hotspot installed. Best of all the price per hour is zero, nada, zilch. The theory seems to be that you will attract more people to your pub…
Anthony Hicks has added a trackback system to his blog. This record should ping the entry that announced it: anthonyjhicks.com – weblog – TrackBack
One of the most annoying American cultural imports that I see around is the “I xxx and I Vote” bumper stickers. In a country with universal, mandatory voting these stickers make no sense whatsoever. In the city today I saw a delivery ute with the biggest pedestrian killing bull bar imaginable. On that bullbar was…
Also from Apple is “GarageBand” – a new component of their iLife suite. GarageBand a home studio application that allows you to combine live recordings (including virtual guitar amps for special sounds), MIDI sequences and pre-recorded instrument “loops” to create your own music. My descriptions doesn’t really do it justice – you have to see…
Apple have released a preview version of a new tool for “Advanced Computation” – Xgrid This tool allows you to form a computation cluster from the Macs on your network. Nothing really new here, except that in typical Apple fashion it is easier to set up than any of the other computational clustering implementations I…
Sanity and HMV are both about to launch online music sales in Australia using this service:WiredRecords Music Service V2.0b. However, despite the URL mp3.wiredrecords.com they actually sell wma files that can only be used on Windows. Oh well. I guess I will just have to hold on to my money.
I am currently working at a customer site, and I have just had a visit from a telephone sanitizer. They really exist!