It ain’t no famous name on a golden plaque
That keeps me that makes me ride that railroad track
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Off to Washington
Plastic Bag Beeb
Tom Coates writes a damaging critique of the BBC’s New Media restructuring. Damaging, specific and - who knows - maybe libellous.
Web 2.0: Tim O’Reilly rather unclear
Tim O’Reilly’s business associates, CMP, applied for a servicemark on the phrase ‘Web 2.0′ in the context of conferences, including education conferences, and other live events.
The O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference website seems to misapply the servicemark in the title graphic, where the TM appears as a superscript after the word ‘conference’, clearly implying that a trademark is held for the phrase Web 2.0 Conference.
I had an email exchange with Tim O’Reilly about this:
Ancient cron job
Updating one of my websites, I notice, according to the site admin area:
Cron is running. The last cron job ran 36 years 29 weeks ago.
Hmm… must get in touch with The Long Now
Homeopathy
Did you hear about the homeopathic doctor who forgot to take his pills? Died of an overdose
Popular Flickr photos
This photo Helen took in Parma, Italy has rapidly become the most viewed on one of her Flickr accounts:
No idea why.
My next portable MP3 player
Fresh out of the box the Nano is beautiful but it scratches, badly. So much for Apple’s much-vaunted product design.