Back in Brum
The hippygeek is back in the city, rotting his mind with boolean algebra. At least this time I have a decent sized bottle of single malt. Wait, maybe it’s not the algebra after all…
What actually happened at CES
So, Google Pack was what the fuss was all about, a sort of linux-esque package management for Windows. And the adoption of DRM of course, I guess that answers the question of whether AOL is now 5% less evil or Google is more evil. C’mon guys, you know as well as we do that DRM is fundamentally flawed, don’t play along. The video I want to search for is the video of Larry’s keynote to see the bits with Robin Williams in and the interesting stuff about common standards.
Why is yahoo writing phone-specific software to access their web services? It’s going to take a while to write software for every model of mobile phone out there… there are much better ways.
Is it me or has Bill Gates lost his interest in IT?
Intel and Yahoo pushing XP Media Centre Edition, oh well.
New Year
2005 was a year of planning, 2006 is a year of action, then hopefully 2007 will be a year of great things to follow.