The education sector has by far the most potential to steer and promote the direction of open-source than anything else in the UK. So why has Becta waited a year to whinge about Office and Vista instead of doing what it’s there to do – lead?

Well, it seems that I have to give Plus.net a big thumbs-up on what could have easily been a crisis. At 2008-01-18 08:57:02 this was posted on their support site: We have recently become aware of a number of PlusNet customers who are experiencing problems receiving email following the migration of their accounts to the [...]

A hip program that I found useful recently is an app called Delineate. As it works with Java, it is completely cross-platform and runs using client executables of autotrace or potrace. The great thing about it is that you can play with the settings of either program and then generate a preview. Two images are [...]

It’s been a while, so I thought I’d pick up the pace with my new record on Minesweeper. 8 seconds baby! Well, I think it’s a new record for me anyway. Maybe I’ve already done 7… I’m not sure – but here it is!