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Monthly Archives: May 2009

It turns out they were right (sort of)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I remember in 2007 there were a few people getting very excited about QR codes, which are special bar codes that can be read by mobile phones and such like. They were predicting they’d be in magazines, on posters, t-shirts… all over the place. We were all meant to be scanning these codes to link [...]

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Open source is better

Monday, May 4, 2009

I’ve been leading technical projects and teams for getting on for 20 years, but my current role is the first where open source has been a point of principle. I’ve used open source software many times, but I’ve reached a point where it’s become important to explicitly support and advocate its use. Why?
The first, and [...]

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Conspiracy theory

Sunday, May 3, 2009

This is a link to Google’s Street View of the SIS HQ at Vauxhall.

How did they get the bus to follow Google’s car all the way alongside the building? Was it waiting all morning for the Google car to come past?
Cunning.

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