Graceful Exits

Graceful Exits goes straight-edge with Straight Edge, a minimalist theme written by yours truly.

My rather cheesy write-up of OGN6 is now available on the Google Open Source blog. I’d like to say it was cut to ribbons and all the worst bits are editorial additions, but I think they put it up verbatim.
Cheers, all: see you at OGN7, June 25th.

While I’m not particularly a net-neutrality zealot (it’s hard to care about it when most of the world’s poor are without any net connection at all), I’m nonetheless surprised by the bullishness of the recent remarks by Neil Berkett, Virgin Media’s CEO. I’m more taken aback, however, by his choice of phrase: he says that [...]

Torchbox (where I work) soft-launched The Carbon Account today. More press information should be available on the site in the next couple of days: just ring up or email if you need some in the mean time.
Beta testers have been hammering away at the Carbon Account for ages to make sure everything’s working right. The [...]

Flickr is working with the Library of Congress on new project The Commons. Currently there are around three thousand photographs up there from two collections, and according to the Commons homepage they’re all copyright-free. More information in the relevant post on the Flickr blog.
This is wonderful news, especially because the collection is being released through [...]

Blogging from Oxford Geek Nights #3, and it doesn’t look like the weather has dampened the Oxonian geek ardour. We reckon we’ve got around 120 people here tonight, which is fantastic (especially given the circumstances). Standing room only in the Jericho Tavern, sort of like Botley Road right now but without waders. I can’t say [...]

Sick and tired of getting a million hits, all to the same page, which more often than not hasn’t been updated in the mean time? Want to reduce your bandwidth and server-time loads without necessarily impairing your visitors’ experience of your site?
If you haven’t ever had cause to use it, there’s a standard called ETag [...]

As I gradually emerge from my long, occasionally messy (but mostly fruitful) encounter with Drupal, I hope to neglect this blog less and less. As a couple of well-meaning friends have put Graceful Exits on their aggregator site, Oxford Geeks Planet, then I ought to acknowledge the faith they have in my ability to churn [...]

This week will be a busy week: between Oxfringe, newly-discovered other fringes, and the ever-present official festival I may not be near email as often as I normally would. To this end I’ve put a Twitter box in the right-hand column of this blog. It’s a nasty piece of Shockwave Flash but it at least [...]

I’m not one for passing on memes and crazy petitions, but Sean McGrath has pointed out that Dell are requesting advice on expanding their pre-installed Linux range.
I think they currently provide, oh, some old version of Ubuntu on two of their billion computer models only in the US, and then only in states whose names [...]