Tim Bray has possibly made his last-ever optical media purchase.

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I almost feel bad about this, but it seems like this sacred cow is more like Shambo. sometimes the elders are right, and the youngsters really are too young to know the history of the idea they think that they’ve just invented. Unfortunately

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of the £14bn spent on technology in UK government every year (over 50% of all IT spend in the whole of Britain), around 70% of all projects end in failure e-Government in the UK – call that transformation?

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I am very much looking forward to the coming increase in quality and drop in price of digital photo frames. We currently have five photo frames in our living room (three are curved, four are glass-edged). I wouldn’t mind swapping them out for digital frames provided there were a few criteria: • they have to be no thicker than our existing frames • they can’t be plugged into the ma...

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I’d like to thank everyone who put up with my ‘eternal beta‘ session at IWMW 2007 – it was baking hot and I had a cracking headache, so congratulations for not hurling chairs and broken glass at me! In other news it was good to catch up with a number of people and to meet a lot...

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I almost forgot to say that I’ll be in York on Monday at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 presenting

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My wife’s not been sleeping well recently. Phil Wilson is a geek snob Web app programming is his day job Linux is his OS Firefox and the rest Cos he thinks that Bill Gates is a nob Phil Wilson he likes to pretend Open source software’s his friend “DRM sucks!” he cries But it’s really all lies The licence he’s too cheap to spend

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After a few more moments of thought following my last post I imagine what we could do is implement OpenID consumption so that rather than forcing people to be pre-approved before they get a light-weight account they can be post-approved. That is to say, if you’ve registered for a light-weight accoun...

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The computer mouse is one of the worst human-computer interaction devices ever invented and I hope it dies a rapid death. Every year or so I explode with fury at the absolute inadequacy of the mouse. It forces my hand to adpot some permanently cramped expression of agony only emulated in the natural world when you fall into a pit of lava and your outstretched arm is the last thing to be ...

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My rabbit’s been chatting merrily away now that his chat form is up. Some highlights from the past few weeks: Message from doozer : In the future, all world knowledge will be communicated through talking rabbits. Message from

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