January 31st, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Most people will be aware of the concept of a hack day – a number of designers and/or developers getting together for a day to build “cool stuff”. These sorts of days happen on a regular basis and quite a few interesting projects have come out of them. On Friday, Charlie and I attended a [...]
December 20th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Photo: lewishamdreamer (from Flickr) The past 36 hours haven’t been the best for those travelling with Eurostar. Five trains were stranded for hours in the Channel Tunnel without power, light, food, drink, heating or information. A further train became stuck near Ebbsfleet yesterday evening. The focus today is on the cause of the incident and [...]
July 26th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
I’m not quite sure where the past few weeks have gone, but quite clearly they’ve passed me by quickly. These are a few things I’ve wanted to blog about but haven’t had the time to write a decent entry. Normal service will resume shortly. Karoo disconnects file sharers Hull’s only internet provider – Karoo – [...]
January 31st, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
Well, I never thought i’d see the day, but Google search has completely fallen over. No matter what you search for, Google returns a message saying that “This site may harm your computer”. Google will not let you visit the page unless you manually type the web address into your browser. It is even labelling [...]
January 24th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This week it feels like a new phase in social media and the internet has begun. The beginning of the week saw America inaugurate a technology-savvy president, who, along with his team, appears to understand the importance of technology and the internet. Throughout last year, Barack Obama and his team made fantastic use of social [...]
November 25th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This weekend I went along to a Developer Day at Microsoft’s campus in Reading. The community-organised day concentrated on software development using Microsoft’s .NET Framework. However, unlike conferences such as PCD and Mix, there were no Microsoft technologists in sight. Instead, all the speakers were from members of the .NET development community. During the day, [...]
July 22nd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
TechCrunch, a leading technology blog network, has announced a project to develop an open-source ‘web tablet’ capable of running Firefox and Skype. The aim is to produce a very thin device (similar to a MacBook Air), with a touch screen interface, WiFi, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4Gb solid state hard drive, and possibly [...]
May 20th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
What is the government thinking? The BBC and The Times are reporting that the Home Office are planning to put together a national database of all phone and email communications. It is another of the schemes proposed to combat terrorism and improve national security – but like all the others, it is just a disaster [...]
May 9th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the final part of a series of entries looking at websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Over the last few entries, I’ve looked at some of the websites used by county councils to provide details of the 2008 local elections. Some of these websites (mainly Monmouthshire County Council) were [...]
May 7th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
This is the third part of a series of entries covering websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Previous I evaluated websites operated by Monmouthshire County Council and the City and County of Swansea. In this entry, I will look at the site run by Cardiff Council. Cardiff Council’s local election website [...]