Archive for July 2007

‘Beta’ and ‘Invite-Only’

I’ve had the chance to play with Plasq’s new beta-invite-only software Skitch for about a month now, and it’s really great.
At the same time however, it highlights (for me at least) a problem with beta software in general. I’ve been sitting, making silly little pictures, happily using this software. The thing I’ve failed to take [...]

Posted at 9:22 on July 21st 2007, filed under Mac, with one comment

University of York

I spent a week at the University of York on a Headstart course - it was in the Computer Science department, so it was a week beginning to learn Prolog and use Alice software. The only downside i could notice was that the university seemed to see it as a week to advertise themselves to [...]

Posted at 10:57 on July 10th 2007, filed under Education, with no comments yet

On GNER & Wi-Fi

On Friday i got a GNER train back from York to Kings Cross (luckily not underwater) and seeing as it was technically my first time on a train in the UK, i decided to give the onboard Wi-Fi a go. A couple of things were immediately evident:

It is so incredibly slow - Google Reader actually [...]

Posted at 18:45 on July 8th 2007, filed under Technology, with no comments yet