An article on Slashdot about some graphics-pen based desktop software called ‘BumpTop’ started me thinking again about interface design (see ‘Welcome to Userville’). But then my thinking started to run ‘well I wrote that post about software design, better think of something else’. I had to think outside the box – literally.
Because outside the software-displaying [...]

In a radio interview last week, Lawrence Jones was asked to explain what an Internet Service Provider does. Following Lawrence’s answer, Phil Wood, the host said – “so you basically run the Internet” and Lawrence’s response was “I guess so, personally we just have a small chunk of it.”
And in one sense this is true [...]

It’s Friday, it’s sunny, and in between bouts of selectitis I’m writing the UKFast blog. What could be better? Now I realise that most of the time here, I’m either attacking or generally moaning about all sorts of technical things. Not today! Today I shall speak of some of the wonderfulness of modern computers.
Good thing [...]

Working in IT is only marginally less stressful than working at CTU, a recent poll suggests. Well colour me surprised – bet if you did a similar poll of carribean beach-bar barmen they’d be moaning about the hazards of falling coconuts, and you’d probably find toy testers losing sleep over the incorrect rendering of Barbie’s [...]

A quick glance at the news this week in the online world throws up questions about the Net’s world wide status. France is voting on the threat of an iTunes monopoly, China is reconsidering its online gaming quotients and the EU is still pressurising Microsoft to open up to its rivals.
What happens when a [...]