An online notebook
So, as a bit of research and development, I bought a Linx 7 tablet the other day. It was pointed out to me by my pal Paul Webster, who thought it had some intruiging digital inclusion possibilities. First up, the bad bits. The Linx is cheap, and nasty. It has a plastic case that feels … Keep reading
On Saturday at GovCamp 2015, Mike Bracken announced the enabling strategy, the approach GDS is developing to deliver something they call government as as platform. Here’s the nice, short video that explains it: Now, this is very sensible and it is hard to argue against it. The one quibble I have is whether this really … Keep reading
If you have a few hours to spare, you could do a lot worse than to spend them watching the three episodes that make up Triumph of the Nerds, a 1995 documentary charting the history of the microcomputer industry. From the Altair 8800 through the Apple II to IBM’s PC and the dominance of Microsoft, there … Keep reading
I worry about backups. Do you worry about backups? The best way to have backups is to ensure you have three copies of everything important and one of those ought to be somewhere other than where your computers are kept. These days, that means the cloud. I have a fairly standard Seagate 3TB external hard … Keep reading
Great talk from John Graham-Cumming on the history of computing and how nothing’s very new.