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Ubuntu: Ancient african word for ‘less painful than a poke in the eye’

My five year old, home-built PC is now running Ubuntu seven point something something. It was that, or reinstall Windows XP. Again. Let’s just say that if I was going to put XP on this machine again, I’d be using an axe to do it. There are limits beyond which no-one should be pushed. So. How […]


Data Shadows - Phones, Labels, Thinglinks, Cameras, and stuff

These things may have some relation to each other outside my fevered brain. Throwing A Digital Shadow Some thoughts perturbed from the silt at the bottom of the dark pond that is the mind of Warren Ellis, by way of the acquisition of his new, space-shuttle-controlling smartphone, the Nokia N71. What interests me is less the idea […]