Alumuni of DMU in Leicester , which I visited yesterday:
Nicola Pellow was a member of the WWW Project at CERN, working with Tim Berners-Lee. She joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate maths student at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University).
Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the WorldWideWeb browser for the NeXT platform, Pellow [...]
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The shoeless revolution
“Much of the discontent was caused by a perceived disrespect for Burman culture and traditions, for example, what the British termed the Shoe Question: the colonisers’ refusal to remove their shoes upon entering Buddhist temples or other holy places.” I suggest Burmese protesters remove their shoes/hang shoes up/ as a symbol of non-violent protest.
Why Brazil’s not buying Negroponte’s laptops
Why Brazil’s not buying Negroponte’s laptops - thanks to ValleywagSeems Gilberto Gil’s quibbling about the project’s “spiritual dimensions.” Bless, I know what he means too, though Valleywag seems a tad confused — maybe that’s why they refer to Gilberto by his surname Moreira. Update — guess I was a little hard on Vallewag, as [...]
Microsoft vs Google — I choose Google
Microsoft to buy Facebook for $6bn? – Google to fight back with expanded Orkut!
I choose Google - they launch their Orkut battle plan on November 5, which happens to be my birthday. PS: I hear Google may buy WebMD, which is interesting, ta. Personally I wouldn’t bother, but then what do I know?
Buy Vulcano Corp
Volcano Corporation looks interesting..
Look: IT firm not ‘it’; reports on radiology firm glow
Look: IT firm not ‘it’; reports on radiology firm glow..
Onex Carestream Kodak
Hmm, thanks again to Google Finance, I’ve spotted a discrepancy with the value of Onex, which owns Carestream, which was Kodak’s imaging arm..
Chumscrubber
Watched the Donnie-Darko like film Chumscrubber last night, lots of great teen angst, and some nice acting from Glenn Close as the suicide-son’s mum (though popularly better known as the ‘bunny boiler’ in ‘Fatal Attraction’):
“Each character is alone in his world and strains to present an “everything is alright” front through intimidation, passive-aggressive behaviour, or, [...]
What Sir Tim Berners-Lee said to me
I don’t know what Sir Tim Berners-Lee said to everyone else but what he said to me at a talk at the IEE last night was..