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I’ve only got a small(ish) garden. Given the proportion of it that I can get away with using for my kitchen gardening adventure without suffering first-hand the full wrath of my wife, I need to set my sights on maximising my use of the available...

Well, who would have thought that Microsoft would get into iPhone development? On 13th December 2008, Microsoft Live Labs announced the launch of a preview release of its Seadragon Mobile application for the iPhone. Seadragon Mobile provides smooth image...

I've been following with interest the development of StackOverflow.com , the brainchild of Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky , for a while now. It the time of writing, it's still in beta. Hopefully, barring any further hiccups, it'll be released...

About ten years ago, I cabled the house up in Cat5 terminating at a home-made rack in the smallest bedroom (or the data centre as it's affectionately known). Typically, I didn't install anywhere near enough as the number of devices running over...

Well, that came as something of a surprise! I finally got round to pensioning off my Nokia N70 last week and replacing it with an iPhone 3G . Now, I'm no disciple of all things Apple, but the iPhone appealed to me for a number of basic reasons; it...

My learned colleague, Mark Wilson , managed to score an animated T-Shirt recently. I've been after one for ages, since I came across them on Firebox but unfortunately, I'm a size bigger than Mark. I covet his T-Shirt, but I'm not optimistic...

Back in the dim-and-distant past of 1981, I was a fourth year pupil at comprehensive school. Much of my spare time, at lunchtime and after school, was taken up writing software in BASIC and 6502 Assembler for the school's single computer; a Commodore...