At CES 2012, Bill and I were chatting about Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things and decided* that it was the best thing on the whole entire internet. To that end, we came up with the idea of Canonical People Looking At Things. Canonical people look at things a lot. So, it was my job to come up with a way of creating a collaborative photo blog. After...

At CES 2012, Bill and I were chatting about Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things and decided* that it was the best thing on the whole entire internet. To that end, we came up with the idea of Canonical People Looking At Things. Canonical people look at things a lot. So, it was my job to come up with a way of creating a collaborative photo blog. After...

or, big UI oaks do from little tech decisions grow or, how Thunderbird screwed me a bit, although it might be my own fault I have five levels of caring about email.* They are: Don't care I've dealt with this I probably ought to deal with this, or it prompts a thought, or something I need to deal with this I really, really need to deal with this...

or, big UI oaks do from little tech decisions grow or, how Thunderbird screwed me a bit, although it might be my own fault I have five levels of caring about email.* They are: Don't care I've dealt with this I probably ought to deal with this, or it prompts a thought, or something I need to deal with this I really, really need to deal with this...

diag2box.py. Stupid little script to turn +--------+ +-----------+ | #daft +------+ @diagrams | +--------+ +-----+-----+ | +-----------------+------------+ | | +---+------+ +-------+----+ | suddenly | | | | become +---------------+ to unicode | | changed | | | +----------+ +------------+ # fragment-daft @ fragment-diagrams into ┏━━━━━━━━┓...

diag2box.py. Stupid little script to turn +--------+ +-----------+ | #daft +------+ @diagrams | +--------+ +-----+-----+ | +-----------------+------------+ | | +---+------+ +-------+----+ | suddenly | | | | become +---------------+ to unicode | | changed | | | +----------+ +------------+ # fragment-daft @ fragment-diagrams into ┏━━━━━━━━┓...

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in October 2011 there was a session on Ubuntu One cloud printing. That session was about Ubuntu One being a gateway to existing cloud printing services, like HP's ePrint and Google Cloud Print, and I'm looking into that. However, the idea of Ubuntu One being itself a cloud printing service came up in that...

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in October 2011 there was a session on Ubuntu One cloud printing. That session was about Ubuntu One being a gateway to existing cloud printing services, like HP's ePrint and Google Cloud Print, and I'm looking into that. However, the idea of Ubuntu One being itself a cloud printing service came up in that...

Do you remember when Keanu Reeves grew a beard? I mean, if you could grow a beard, why would you grow that one? Even more baffling is that there are plenty of examples of excellent facial hair out there to be inspired by. As Newton once put it, he could have stood on the beards of giants. This started to remind me of the sliding scale of beard...

Do you remember when Keanu Reeves grew a beard? I mean, if you could grow a beard, why would you grow that one? Even more baffling is that there are plenty of examples of excellent facial hair out there to be inspired by. As Newton once put it, he could have stood on the beards of giants. This started to remind me of the sliding scale of beard...

Are you near Manchester? And a developer? Then we'd love to see you on September 1st to talk about web apps and mobile apps and desktop apps and Ubuntu One. You get to see me talk about a bunch of APIs we provide to make apps cooler, and then there will be a beer or three afterwards; Manchester's got a pretty vibrant dev community, along with...

Are you near Manchester? And a developer? Then we'd love to see you on September 1st to talk about web apps and mobile apps and desktop apps and Ubuntu One. You get to see me talk about a bunch of APIs we provide to make apps cooler, and then there will be a beer or three afterwards; Manchester's got a pretty vibrant dev community, along with...

I listen to a lot of audiobooks. They're a great thing when you're walking, or sitting on a train, or falling asleep at night.Librivox are good for this; they're something like the Project Gutenberg of audiobooks, and they have things like Sherlock Holmes and H. P. Lovecraft and so on. I use MortPlayer Audio Books to listen to them: it's a...

I listen to a lot of audiobooks. They're a great thing when you're walking, or sitting on a train, or falling asleep at night.Librivox are good for this; they're something like the Project Gutenberg of audiobooks, and they have things like Sherlock Holmes and H. P. Lovecraft and so on. I use MortPlayer Audio Books to listen to them: it's a...

Goodness me, what can this be? A 2011 reunion episode of LugRadio? Why yes, it is! lugradio.org/episodes/108 A couple of weeks ago, the erstwhile LugRadio team found themselves all in the same city at once, which was obviously a call for a drinking expedition. And then we thought: hey, let's record a show! I thought it might be hard to get back...