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Utility computing in the Cloud
It is usually more interesting and educational to see a good heart-felt debate than complete agreement so you are in for a treat if you take the time to read the following from Nick Carr, Tim O'Reilly and the Smoothspan blog. You can see from the debate that...
Glue Sticks Stuff Together
So, the web is full of interesting stuff, right? Gadgets, people, blogs, books, tips, wine—all good things. At least, the web is full of interesting pages about these things. In a single session, you might read a mate's blog (maybe about wine), then browse a retail...
Pheasant Normandy (but from Hereford): a recipe
So, I've been "tagged" on Twitter to post a recipe and pass on the goodness. I really enjoy cooking, but trying to write down a recipe that I like making is tricky. I tend to cook like recipes my Nanny (great-grandmother) handed down: "pinch of salt, splash of oil...
FOWA
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities I've been out of the Talis office for nearly two weeks—the last of which was on holiday without internet connection of any description. The week before that, however, I spent at FOWA (Future Of...
British Coffee: The British Imported Coffee Culture
UPDATE: Since originally writing this, I've been astounded by the quality of British Coffee. I was also being arrogant and trying to sound clever. Coffee roasters like Has Bean, Union, and Monmouth were already roasting world-class beans. British baristas were winning...
Google’s 10^100 (how many can you help?)
Image via Wikipedia I have begun to see that we may be entering a new age of polymaths, and I'm happy to be involved in a part of the business world which seems to sustain some of the best brains on the planet. I remember reading about the beginners of industry – the...
WordPress
Some of my long-term readers (hi, Mum) might remember that my original blog was a Drupal install, and that my less-than-lovely ISP dropped my connection as I was uploading some new files—therefore borking the CSS. If you don't follow, that's OK. The point is that my...
sleepstorm
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Bill Liao via flickr I've always had a love/hate relationship with sleep. I can remember being so upset I couldn't sleep because I had to go to bed. Maybe this has bled into the present. The funny part of it all, is I'd much rather not be asleep most...
Future of Web Apps
I'm planning to attend this year's Future of Web Apps conference in London. Their list of speakers sounds fantastic, and I'm really looking forward to meeting some folks in real life. I'm particularly interested in this conference for its stated focus on the web...