Boardmad

Absolutely loving this piece of work !

Then clicking on these summaries takes you to a detail view

Not particularly groundbreaking you might think but the implications are significant…data (the bard’s poems in this case) reside in the Google App Engine ‘Cloud’ and the heavylifting gets done by a little python scripting to get the content down to the iPhone client.

For extreme programming or agile delivery prototyping the opportunities are considerable and not just limited to the iPhone client (which was picked in this instance) it could as easily have been leveraged in a silverlight RIA or an Adobe Air.

I own an iPod Touch…it’s a great device and all the millions of words that have been written around the web on it, I’m not going to add further on it except to say I think it’s great…but!

iTunes sucks ! It’s the worst bloated sluggish piece of desktop software I’ve seen in the last 5 years. When it updates itself it’s patches are enormous, it loses it’s connections to Apple’s own ‘Remote’ applet on my Touch, it can’t remember where I like to navigate to in the UI as any decent portal should…ugh the list goes on and and on.

Then there’s the content and here the Register comes up trumps ! When the cheaptards continue to keep buying poorly-written, crash-prone, resource-hogging applications “…because they’re only 59p !” where’s the incentive for the gimps that knock these out to really innovate and take this platform to another new level ?

Sigh…

Two very interesting articles on teh interweb [sic!] show a serious change in the state and direction of internet…I wonder if in 20 years time we’ll look back and identify this as the tipping point  ?

Macs to get AV

Windows usage dips

Time will tell ;0)

An extract from Google Financials with four of the larget UK players in the Investment banking and financial services based back to a relative price at the start of September ‘08.
Those relative losses in value over one month make for painful reading…

RBS - buy at £1.50

Just been sent in a phishing attempt, quite nicely done. Well crafted and linked back to the actual lloyds bank site

Main aim is to get you to punch in your user name and password and memorable answers which it then submits to a couple of email accounts. THESE EMAIL ACCOUNTS

mailto:lom.data@web2mail.com
mailto:lom.data@gmail.com

Please feel free to add these to the most useless and inappropriate mailing lists or offers sites you can think of. Ideally include them in any honeypot scripts you may have running on your site.

I thank you.

When you’re unhappy about something why are you said to “disgruntled” ?

Shouldn’t you be “gruntled” instead ? In the same way you talk someone out of an idea, you “disabuse” them of the notion.

Hmmm..needs more thought that one I think !

Oh lordy…two days in london. Got home last night and awoke this morning with a scratchy throat, enlarged glands (ooer !) and feeling distinctly shivery. Not good…and of course if it’s a bug I’ve no intention of going home and passing it on to the family.

bugger bugger bugger bugger

Brief morning browse of my faves from my hotel room in London brought me to elReg and this little beauty.

“With a total of 72 processors, 48 GB memory, and 3 PCIexpress ports, the Catapult draws less than 200 watts of power and fits in standard PC chassis.”

Blinkin’ flip ! All this for $15k and an opteron core in there for your desktop OS of choice for cluster control and workload management. Bugger me I though the nVidia graphics card processing clusters were good but this takes their pants down and gives them a good skelp on the bum to boot !