Microsoft Has No Power at Mix06

How much petty cash would it cost to send someone with a keen eye on conversations (Scoble!!!) down to the hardware store, grab 40 garden power extension coils, and then plug in some power strips to these and spread them throughout all the rooms?
O’Reilly have their own DIY power boards they seem to take everywhere [...]

UK ID Cards Switching To Chip and Pin For Cost Reasons…

Last week, Andrew Burnham, a junior minister at the Home Office, confirmed the anonymous email by admitting that the ID card scheme would now include chip-and-pin technology because it would be a cheaper way of checking each person’s identity. The sophisticated technology on which this bill was sold will cost too much to operate, with [...]

SXSW Interactive 2006 Thoughts – The Fringe, but for Geeks

So the second major conference of my March mega-trip is over. South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, has been something that I’ve heard mentioned by many people over the years, and now I’ve finally attended I can see why it’s held in higher regard in some circles than the O’Reilly conferences.
The atmosphere is completely [...]

Why I Still Like Flying American

One of the strangest things that I’ve noticed in conversation over in the USA is how many people raise a questioning eyebrow when they ask who I fly with – and I reply “American [Airlines].” This morning, leaving Austin and SXSW to get to the Bay Area, is a good example of why I stay [...]

Etech 2006 Thoughts – Prepping to Jump The Shark?

So my time in San Diego is at an end (heading over to Austin for SXSW) and I’m trying to recap O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference 2006. To me it seemeed to run at a slower pace this year, but then because I’m in the USA for more than just ETech, I’m pacing myslef very very [...]

Kudos From Others ETech Coverage

Now this is both humbling and high-5 territory at the same time. Watching the blogosphere ETech coverage in the downtime between sessions at SXSW (hint, there’s not a lot of downtime!) I came across this paragraph of praise for attendees over at Attention Trust.
Bruce Sterling was refreshingly contrarian and had at least one killer line. [...]

The First Rule About Robot Club Is…

…Americans have never heard of Spaced, so the irony of organising an ‘illegal’ Robot Wars (Battlebots) ‘demonstration’ at an undisclosed location in Austin for SXSW and BarCampAustin attendees was probably lost on them.

In any case much merriment was had and, indeed, there was ‘no smoking.’

Flickr Goodies From ETech

This works on so many levels! Congrats to Privateye on the words – had me chuckling while I pack up after Etech (thoughts soon) to move over to SXSW.

I’m The Seer…

…he’s a werewolf, and they are villiagers.
In actual fact the truth was he’s the seer, they’re werewolves, and I’m playing an insane villiager.
Last night at ETech saw an awesome single round of Werewolf. It pretty much guarantees that in any subsequent game at ETech I’ll get lynched in the first round, but if you want [...]

Shaun of The Dead Killed on my PSP

Thank you Sony… grrr. I could have picked up a copy of Shaun of the Dead on UMD Video disk for my recently accquired Playstation Portable for $10 (about £7) which I think is a pretty good price point. Except that because I’m in the USA (region 1) and my PSP is UK based (region [...]

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