Apple was the first to introduce digital camera (Quicktake) and PDA (Newton) to a mass audience long time before then became product of mass consumption which is why they commercially failed(can we call it The Tucker syndrome? or maybe the NeXT syndrome for the geekier of you). These products

Ars Technica has published this interesting article: London pilots "future crime" database

Just found this story on Digg relating various steps of the evolution of graphic user interface on personal computers. It reminded me another time line I came across years ago, which is the history of UNIX from 1969 to nowadays. read more | digg story

Interesting article here: Can a Manager Be a Techie and Survive?

Some online sports betting services are now taking bets on release date for rumoured future Apple products: Business and Financial Betting, Macworld Odds at Bodog Sportsbook

Electro-Static-Thoughts Originally uploaded by chokocat. Photo from a contact. Light as wild as abstract a concept. That make this photo amazing as the light stopped on the curves and on the lines to stay and to reveal itself more than the subject: You can guess the face but you acknowledge

I've just found out that my views expressed on earlier posts are shared by at least one web comic author: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

So, are we all mutants? _Breakthrough in Human Genetics: "Many readers have submitted this story about a breakthrough in our understanding of human DNA. In particular how much variation can exist between peoples genes and how genes are involved with certain diseases. 'One person's DNA code can be as

Peaceful launch for the Wii PS3: bad boys, again

St Andrews Cross Spider- Best viewed large Originally uploaded by aussiegall. The very vision of that creature is truly amazing. Especially when you look at the details in the larger view.

Although an extensive review of the gadget can be found on Ars Technica, it's Joy Of Tech who summarizes it best:

Looks like you'd better stay away from the game system of from the owners for that matter: Store robbed of five PS3s Violence ensues during PS3 launch US$89m for a PS3 on ebay Man shot in PS3 queue

If the real life news bore you, just have a read at what's happening in the virtual one Second Life (dubbed Sadville?): Panic in Sadville! | The Register Hard lessons for Second Life citizens

Don't forget to read Bruce Sterling's comment attached to the article. It's a good read. _ UK RFID passports cracked: "Cory Doctorow: UK security experts have cracked the sooper sekure new UK biometric passports. It took 48 hours. With £174 worth of sniffer hardware, attackers can read all the personal

Among the many festivals happening in London this month, there is the London Jazz Festival. I've skipped last year iteration, but attended the event 2 years ago where I've enjoyed the great saxophonist Jan Garbarek. This year, I was there and on wednesday I've been to the Barbican to see

Seen in a subversion commit message. Made me smile for some obscure reasons: _"Possible fix for forthcoming bug" _

sbc seeks jbp Originally uploaded by emdot. Nice shot from a flickr contact. the description says: "single blue chair seeks jean bottomed partner for studying or emailing. willing to relocate. older, but looks good for age. likes: desks, windows, focused studiers, occasionally leaning back on two legs; dislikes: being

Marble Originally uploaded by Buntekuh. The eye is so perfect, it looks like a soap bubble. Alternatively you may want to play marbles with it. But you won't because you're afraid to scratch such a perfectly polished surface. Composition and focus are excellent, and help making the eye the superstar

The newest Digital TV tuner for mac form Elgato looks very nice. I like the twin tuner, twin antenna flexibility that allows you to record 1 channel while watching another or to watch one channel using both tuner to increase the digital quality. That suits me perfectly as in my

Not Really Here (2) Originally uploaded by Rija [Pomme::TAB]. Sunday is comic day :)

Mimicking nature Originally uploaded by Ahmed Zahid. Another Beautiful image from a Ahmed Zahid, a flickr contact. the sweet curve and the refreshing color are a treat to my senses.

they arrived! Originally uploaded by omnia. Superb photos well rendered on MOO cards from a flickr contact. A friend of mine has also ordered a set of cards last week. They were much smaller that I'd imagine but they looked great. The only issue is if you leave in London:

Ok. Remember my post about 2 IT companies in London victim of robbery? It happened again. This time the victim is the First tier Internet services provider Level 3 (supposed to be a top dog in term of security given the criticality of its clients applications). If I count correctly,

And that's why automated testing of the integration points are very important! I'm currently involved in a huge project made of multiple components. To each component corresponds a project team. My direct upstream dependency is a web API. In addition to our own unit tests and system tests, we've got

40 Originally uploaded by Rija [Pomme::TAB]. A poster of the 40 photos of mine considered "interesting" photos according to Flickr' s top secret interestingness algorithm. My personal favourites are not all in there and there are some photos that I don't like but have been found to