We took a bit of time out to see the Spielberg’s War of the Worlds yesterday. I won’t review the film (it was ok, though spoiled by too many miracles and an insipidly sentimental ending), but I do have some comments I want to vent from my spleen…
One thing that really struck me were the […]

I just installed the Rockbox firmware on my favourite toy, my iRiver iHP-140, and … it rocks! So much better than the iRiver firmware. Gapless playback, great playlist support, and it can play many different codecs: mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wavpac, and mpc (but not wma). The Rockbox team have turned the best portable music […]

What’s the collective noun for conferences? Even google doesn’t help with this one. Any suggestions?
Here’s a list of conferences I may or may not be attending, submitting papers to, or just dreaming of:
ACIS 2005: Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2005, hosted by the Department of Information Systems at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), […]

Today I’m officially back from leave1, and I’m trying to sort out the conceptual mess I left behind about three weeks ago.
So much has happened since then:

The bomb blasts in London. The closeness of this was made stark by the fact that I had met one of the bomb victims, Sam Ly, who used […]