Tweet I’ve spent a fair amount of time playing with SQLite in the past, and found that it is suprisingly nippy for a database that runs from a single file on your filesystem. I’ve used it succesfully both in it’s traditional form as an actual database, and in a somewhat non-traditional fashion as an in-memory database to make sure that [...]
Tweet This morning I had a whole blog post planned around more Google goodness, but then our Nintendo Wii arrived. After much scurrying about to find a UK to SA plug convertor, we managed to set it up just in time for the afternoon meetings. By the time we got back to the office the girls had mastered Wii Bowling, [...]
Tweet I’ve long been a fan of ted.com, especially the TED Talks section. Consider a collection of talks by inspirational thinkers, just waiting to be downloaded. Well now they’ve gone and updated the site with a new design and put a whole load more talks on the site. Hans Rosling (who I’ve blogged about before), Jeff Hahn, Neil Gershenfeld (who [...]
Tweet A while ago I decided that I didn’t want to keep maintaining my mess of a website and figured I’d convert it over to be a mashup of feeds from other hosted services. I’m a firm believer that something must do one thing, and do it well, which is why I don’t (usually) use my phone to take photo’s [...]
Tweet A Simple Code – Web Karma, Distilled http://asimplecode.com/ No mess, no fuss. Can we stop hearing about Kathy and Tim now please?
Tweet As I sat at the airport the other night, listening to my iPod and lamenting that my laptop battery had long since died, I started noticing the overwhelming number of people that were connected to a device of some sort. I expected to see (as I did) the teenager with the iPod and MacBook to be there, or the [...]
Tweet So yesterday afternoon after a mad dash in pre-holiday traffic to the airport to make my flight back to Cape Town on time, it was a case of sit around and wait. What was really interesting though was sitting watching the queue for the boarding. Now I’m not a great one for standing in lines, so when I pitched [...]
