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.net magazine mentions OGN

jp.stacey 29 October 2007

Oxford Geek Nights have got a mention in the November 2007 issue of .net magazine.

The Carbon Account is live

jp.stacey 26 March 2008
Once you start recording your wanton indulgences, you become less indulgent.

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.

The film Speed was set on a bus as well

jp.stacey 14 April 2008
Berkett by name, Berkett by nature.

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 Virgin customers who don’t pay a premium are likely to be put in the Internet’s “bus lane”.

OGN7 writeup at the Google OS Blog

jp.stacey 10 July 2008
OGN7 writeup on Google. It has to be pithier next time or they'll turn it into pirate-speak to spite me.

The writeup for OGN7 is live on the Google OS blog. If you were there, then you probably won't learn anything new; if you weren't, then what was your excuse?

Belated and potentially unreliable discussion of Google Chrome

jp.stacey 14 September 2008
I feel it's important to tell it like it is, even in the restricted space of a post title; but maybe I need a lesson from Google in self-presentation.

I'm typing this from Google Chrome. Since it was released almost two weeks ago I've wanted to blog about it, but have been mostly hampered by no easy access to Vista or XP.

Live blogging from Google Developer Day

jp.stacey 16 September 2008
I typed this first time round in Lynx over ssh, so it was quite brief. I then went back and added a whole day of live rambling to it, so now it's as long as a Steve Yegge post.

Currently live blogging from the Google Developer Day, London 2008. Fittingly the live blog is a Google Doc.

Like a moron, I left my mobile phone at home, and then ended up separated from everyone I know; so have a look at what I'm liveblogging and find me, if you care.

Edit 2008-09-18: notes now below.

The End

Lightning talks 16.25-17.35, SF2

Google App Engine

Coalfinger, wah waah waaaah

jp.stacey 30 October 2008
He's the man, the man with the touch of coal: and the voice of Brian Blessed.

From Greenpeace comes Coalfinger, the dangerous megalomaniac trying to open coal-fired power stations across the world:

Free experimental lyrical journey in your letterbox

jp.stacey 29 November 2008
It was all so much easier to explain when I was giving away booklets of short stories.

(This has nothing to do with web development, although there is a Drupal site in there.)

In 2006 we gave you A Pocketful of Lies, a compilation of random short stories written in the past six or seven years, delivered free in print form to the door of anyone who wanted one.

In 2007 we gave you Stones and Bones, a sequence of short stories written in the preceding months and tied together thematically.

BBC Oxford: Geek Night

jp.stacey 20 January 2009
And then they go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "why don't we get that Geek Evenings fellow on next week?"

With any luck I'll be talking to Danny and Lou on BBC Oxford tomorrow at half noon, about the phenomenon that is Oxford Geek Nights. It's all rather good timing in one sense, given that OGN10 is happening tomorrow evening, but terrible timing in another sense, given that I have to get ready for OGN10 happening tomorrow evening.

All of this is subject to change, of course.

For all your idiomatic English needs

jp.stacey 22 February 2009
If your copy, rewritten and redrafted with a broad audience in mind, no longer engages: scrap it, and write as if to a respected, friendly colleague.

Some six months ago I received a newsletter from a respected company, active in open source, and providing graded services including a reliable free one. However, the first paragraph of that newsletter (ostensibly written by the CEO) said:

We hope you are enjoying the — service for all your — needs. We are passionate about our customer promise: to provide the best online — solution in the market with a focus on ease of use, personalization, security, and privacy.