Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Technology on Apr 5th, 2008
Dear lazy web. As of next week; and for the first time in many years I’ll be suffering a commute twice a day. I’m hoping it’ll be quick – 20 minutes or so; but still – that’s the best part of an hour a day I’ll lose. So, I’m looking for some good daily podcasts [...]
Posted in Marketing, Technology, open source on Mar 26th, 2008
This is article explains the shortcomings of the way web application providers typically engage potential customers – ie. the web form. I wonder how much time people spend filling in these dumb forms (never to return to the site) – what a waste – for all concerned. The article got me thinking about technology adoption [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2008
Over the last day or so, I’ve been playing with VirtualBox – a type-2 desktop-oriented hypervizor; I managed to get my two favourite Linux flavours up and running pretty quickly now I’m contemplating mucking about with the networking so I can get the images talking over a virtual network.
Once I have that – I have [...]