Some timely and sensible comments from Peter Marks on Radio National breakfast this morning, concerning the 2Clix / Whirlpool stoush. He made the point that the best way for companies to respond to adverse criticism online is simply to engage in a discussion.
I can vouch for this based on experience here on this blog; long-time [...]
A wise man once told me that he deliberately avoided cultivating expensive tastes, because they are ultimately unsatisfying unless you are uncommonly wealthy. I think this is probably good advice in general, and particularly good advice for cars, wine, cameras, and home A/V equipment. But for headphones, not so much. Sure, you get the urge [...]
Pixel density independence (or whatever it’s called) is not very prominent in the list of features touted for the upcoming Leopard operating system, but apparently it is coming. With Tiger we saw some signs of progress, and hopefully Apple will make it a reality with Leopard. I rate this a very important feature, one worthy [...]
And now, another definition deathmatch!
Attention English-speaking people of Earth. Your use of the word “resolution” in the context of display technology has been confusing and infuriating us for some time now.
There are at least two common meanings. One refers to the absolute number of pixels in both the horizontal and vertical dimensions. The other refers [...]
A recurring source of amusement is the number of sports whose followers all claim ownership to the term “football”. Wikipedia lumps them all together in one big, NPOV, article. As if they all had a legitimate claim to being called football. Naturally such neutrality will not stand.
I propose that one of these sports be selected [...]
Oh yes, I’m writing a blog article about the importance of note taking. That’s right, note taking.
Why? It’s a skill that I have been working hard on recently, and so at meetings I often find myself the only person who is doing it. This article is an attempt to evangelise note taking, a possibly [...]
Some blog updates, the details of which will no doubt enthrall and excite very few of you.
Invisible Changes
Under the covers, the entire girtby site (such as it is) is now stored in an SVK repository depot. SVK is a great little distributed version control system built on top of Subversion. I want to say more [...]
So with the change of job, I’m eager to keep in touch with all (well, some) of my former colleagues. In the past this has taken the form of sporadic individual emails of decreasing frequency. So, I’m experimenting with the latest craze, social networking sites. Some very early impressions follow.
Fortunately the reason for my extended absence from this blog is not a tragic one. I’ve just been busy, is all.
Firstly, I got a new job. As with the last job I’m not going to say too much about it, or identify the company. Suffice it to say that I’m doing stuff with compressed video [...]
So I’m reading a published standards document. For various reasons I don’t want to say which one, but suffice it to say that it’s published by a reputable standards body and also ratified by ANSI. This particular document is dated 2006.
The document describes a binary message exchange protocol, which they rather confusingly call an API. [...]
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