When you have “dinner at seven” it would be dinner at seven tonight unless that time has already passed, then it would be dinner at seven tomorrow night. If it were “breakfast at seven” then it would be tomorrow morning as most of us […]
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Water wagon
The water wagon, a public house that only sells water.
Clouded by ash: A tale of two countries
The Norwegian Prime Minister, having been grounded in New York by Icelandic eruptions, did the natural thing for a politician in a modern democracy. He called in the press.
HTML video: The subtext
There has been a lot of talk about HTML5 video, codecs, containers, and the lot. That certainly matters, but it isn’t something I care about. Assuming the browsers could agree on some standard media codec plug-in interface, like they have done before, browsers shouldn’t […]
“This is your brain on Kafka”
This Is Your Brain on Kafka Absurdist literature, it appears, stimulates our brains. That’s the conclusion of a study recently published in the journal Psychological Science. Psychologists Travis Proulx of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Steven Heine of the University of British […]
The SVG path
The last W3C working group I participated in, Multimodal Interaction (MMI), is at the periphery of the Web and is unlikely to make much of an impact on it in the foreseeable future. However they have produced a few interesting specs (and a few […]
Veien til fremtiden
To transportinnlegg på fremtidsblogg. Augustine-kommisjonen til Obama: Ingen måneferd før 2020 Kan høyhastighetstog bli ryggraden i vår megaregion? Cat free 9/9/9? Great, but what about all the other days?
Dele, ikke stjele?
Denne uken kom det et opprop fra kunstnerdypet, iallfall noen av dem, som sa seg forfordelt, eller var det forforstjelt? At bransjeorganisasjonene ikke er velvillig innstilt til fildeling er knapt nytt, men denne gangen var kampanjen frontet av forfattere og utøvere. Gitt det 20. […]
“How XML Threatens Big Data”
Minimal markup seen from a data point of view rather than a document point of view. I wouldn’t say it is XML’s fault as such, but it being used for a purpose it is less than ideally suited for, a consequence of early oversell […]
How clever are smartphones really?
Last issue of New Scientist published a paean to IPhone named Appland: How smartphones are transforming our lives. It follows a traditional NS pattern of being ahead of the curve for science and behind it with technology. The author was elated, and there is […]