The papers have recently been full of stories about the rise of online shopping and the harm it’s doing the high street. The storeis abound and yet the same papers carry articles (in the same edition) extolling the virtues of shopping online and the bargains you can find! Confused?
The simple fact remains that buying online [...]

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When trying to subscribe to an rss feed the url’s have ‘feed:’ on the front of them, which both Firefox and Thunderbird reject! Remove the ‘feed:’ (to be left with an http url) and all is fine and Thunderbird will once more subscribe to the feeds. Now I’ve figured that out, maybe I can restart [...]

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The pledge attracted the 1,000 signatures! That’s great news but does mean that shortly it’ll be time to start paying!
I met Suw Charman at Ben’s last weekend and the ORG managed to get a mention in the papers at the weekend, so things are looking good.
The website is now at http://www.openrightsgroup.org/.

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When my monitor died last week I went and looked up the number for Viewsonic but ran out of time to call them, so having some time this afternoon I finally rang them. I spoke with a very friendly lady who asked a lot of sensible questions, took my details and said that they would [...]

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One of my dual Viewsonic monitors died! One second ther was a picture, the next a black screen. Power was still there. Connection was still OK. Just no picture.
Switched it off, left it for a minute, switched it on. Picture appeared! Then disappeared again. Guess it’s the monitor itself! Let’s hope the other one doesn’t [...]

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Skype is closed source. It uses propietary codecs and doesn’t play with anyone else! It also doesn’t run on FreeBSD running on an amd 64 processor.
SIP is an open protocol with quite a few clients. As it’s open it plays well with others and clients will even run on FreeBSD running on amd 64.
Given my [...]

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A year ago I spent a bit of time and effort trying to figure out which provider to use for my broadband. I eventually went with Zen, partly based on a reccomendation from Ben. The service has been very good and the price, while a little higher than I’d like to pay (I want it [...]

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On sunday I went down to Dhaka, Bangladesh for the first time. It was interesting to make your way down across areas that I’ve not seen before, but two sights really stood out for me on the journey there.
The first was crossing the border between Pakistan and India. We crossed it when it was still [...]

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Recently I ahd the opportunity to meet Tom Steinberg at an evening meeting in London. The project he was most excited about was the Pledge Bank. I’d visited the site shortly before meeting him as Danny O’Brien had posted a pledge around an organisation to campaign for digital rights (a subject that is truly on [...]

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One of teh things that I do from time to time is copy a CD. Finding a need to do this I found it wasn’t as straightforward as I hoped it might be under gnome. After a web search I found X-CD-Roast. Installed it via the ports and then ran it. All worked well and [...]

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I installed Mozilla sunbird a while back and was impressed with how usable it was for a 0.2 release. It supports online shared calendars so I’m going to try and create one so that friends and family can keep track of my movements. The first steps have been completed and now teaching my parents how [...]

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