The case for open source
Imagine buying a car from your local dealer and six months later having them come to you and say…
Posts in category "Random Musings"
Waving goodbye to the elephant
Well, that scuppered that post idea… I’d been planning a review post comparing Evernote and OneNote…
Overthinking design
My home project is coming along, and I can now get data from my SmartThings hub into my Zato ESB. So far so good…
XML is not a programming language
XML is great for a lot of things and, yes, the L stands for language. The M is the key here though – markup…
Trusting the cloud – part II
More thoughts on trusting the cloud… where do you store your documents?
Competition hurts us
Competition is good for the consumer, right? That’s the idea. Unfortunately that’s increasingly not the case in the computer world, where the big companies are competing to tie us in completely to their products. The…
OSX Yosemite
The new version of OSX, Yosemite, is out now and frankly I’m not overly impressed, at least as far as the design is concerned. Everything has been simplified and I just think it looks… simple….
Impulse buying is harder than ever
I’m a bit of a gadget geek and impulse buying is one of my weaknesses. The thing I’ve noticed lately is that it’s harder than ever. Oh, it’s simplicity itself to order stuff online but…