I take a lot of photos and I share some of them online via the antique medium of Flickr. Not many people look at them, which I don't mind, because I imagine my audience to be (a) family and (b) myself, later. Photos I take with people in them are usually visible only to my… Continue reading A film camera
Category: Things that Are Gone
Bowie
Here's a playlist of good David Bowie songs that I had never heard until after he died last week. Spotify playlist YouTube links: Dead Against It (1993) Up The Hill Backwards (1980) Move On (1979) Dancing With The Big Boys (1984) (with Iggy Pop) I Would Be Your Slave (2002) Girl Loves Me (2016) You've… Continue reading Bowie
Perl 6
I see the official release of the Perl 6 language specification happened on Christmas day. The first piece of commercial web development I did was in Perl 5. A lot of people can probably say the same thing. This one was a content-management system led by James Elson in 1999 at PSWeb Ltd, a small… Continue reading Perl 6
Windows Phone: a bit like BeOS
Today's possibly stretching-a-point Technology Analogy In a previous article I compared the situation of Windows 8 on the desktop to that of OS/2 in the late 80s. Windows Phone 8 is in a different position. While Windows 8 gets its awkwardness from the need to provide compatibility with the dominant platform—which in this case means… Continue reading Windows Phone: a bit like BeOS
Hyvästi, Sibelius
This week saw the sad news that the UK office responsible for development of the music score-writing software Sibelius is to be closed down. Maintenance of the software will be moved elsewhere, at least according to its owners Avid, the former video-editing software company that expanded madly throughout the professional audio and video world during the 2000s and… Continue reading Hyvästi, Sibelius
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