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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 30/1/2004 Today is Shuji Nakamura's day! You haven't heard of him? He's changed your life. He is the chap who invented the blue LED -- thus breaking forever the dominance of those red, green and orange twinkly lights that festooned our...
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
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Blog Monday 19/01/2004 Has anyone seen a sense of humour lying around? Last seen chatting to its friend, the Sense of Proportion, but both missing presumed being held in Camp Delta as a threat to global security.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
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Blog Tuesday 20/01/2004 Keep it with Kodak? No, thanks. The company deserves a lot of respect: it saw the problem coming, it took action to avert the consequences and it's been reacting with sanity and far-sightedness throughout.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
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Blog Wednesday 21/01/2004 Outsourcing is getting to be really big business --the number of billion dollar deals doubled last year, according to Datamonitor. And these are just the sort of technology-related jobs that we were supposed to embrace to...
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
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Blog Thursday 22/1/2004 You may not have noticed it amid the crashing space probes, terrorism scares, global warming fears and other minor worldwide issues, but two of the things that really worries the Americans at the moment are homosexuality and...
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
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Blog Friday 23/1/2004 As I type this, I'm watching the clock and anxiously waiting for the next scheduled attempt to communicate with the Mars rover. The Great Galactic Ghoul -- that mysterious Mars monster reputed to have eaten the two-thirds of...
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
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Blog Monday 12/1/2004 Despite my booze-free January I'm still well into the lardy end of the spectrum, which is just as well: they say it takes a big man to admit he was wrong. Especially when it involves what the Americans would delicately call...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
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Blog Tuesday 13/1/2004 The SCO Versus The World affair grinds on, but it really does look like SCO is losing the plot. Today, SCO has filed a set of documents as part of its case against IBM -- it would take too long to go into the details, and you can...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
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Blog Wednesday 14/1/2004 We're going to Mars! No, not you and I -- although wouldn't we have fun? but the we as in We Came In Peace For All Mankind. Leaving behind the mundane matters of war, terrorism, mad cows and trillion-dollar deficits, Dubya...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
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Blog Thursday 15/1/2004 I wish I had a gold medal to award for common sense in technology. Not that there'd be much call for it -- I could probably manage a four-yearly ceremony, like the Olympics -- but today I'd be lighting the flame and polishing my...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
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Blog Friday 16/1/2004 Friday morning post: the usual PR bumf, an incomprehensible pension statement that seems to suggest my retirement fund is being carefully managed until there's nothing left, and an invitation to Farm Animal And Livestock Technology...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
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Blog Monday 5/1/2004 You had a good New Year, I hope. Mine? Helluva party in Edinburgh, since you ask: they might have cancelled the official Hogmanay, but we struggled through stuff that fizzed and stuff that didn't.
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
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Blog Tuesday 6/1/2004 A geek is a geek is a geek. But a geek inspired can be a thing of wonder. Take Geoff Marshall, email admin for a big British broadcaster and a man whose true nature is not in doubt. He obsesses about London Underground, to the...
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
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Blog Wednesday 7/1/2004 The world might have taken a fortnight off, but that hasn't diminished the intensity of last year's chewiest story -- Linux Versus The Rest Of The World. SCO continues to issue bizarre challenges to Linux' legitimacy while...
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
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Blog Thursday 8/1/2004 Hail, Citizen-Consumer! Er, what? This chilling phrase -- more redolent of an Orwellian dystopia than anything previously issuing from Nu-Lab Central -- now meets those who go looking for information on radio regulatory issues.
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
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Blog Friday 9/1/2004 More proof that Citizen-Consumer will soon be the only occupation permitted by law, as Cisco unveils its first DVD player. Oh, OK, it's Linksys -- now Cisco -- and the DVD player bit is backed up by lots of wireless networking...
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
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Blog Monday 15/12/2003 There's an increasing buzz about voice over IP: not only are previously diehard opponents like BT getting in on the act, as we reported last week, but the quality of the alternatives is getting better.
[December 19, 2003, 16:15]
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Blog Tuesday 16/12/2003 Living as I do in one of the livelier parts of London, I've become inured to a certain level of sordidness. After a while, you stop being worried by the ladies of negotiable intimacy and the neurochemically altered street...
[December 19, 2003, 16:15]
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Blog Wednesday 17/12/2003 Fancy a new operating system? You can wait three years for Longhorn, which will have all sorts of fab things you never knew you wanted, or you can download the brand-new release of the Linux kernel, 2.6.0, which became...
[December 19, 2003, 16:15]
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Blog Thursday 18/12/2003 To Claridges, for lunch with PR company Medialink and a selected bunch of their clients -- Hauppauge, makers of computer TV thingies; E92 Plus, anti-spam software bods; and STB Systems, who do financial support software for banks.
[December 19, 2003, 16:15]
