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Steve Bowbrick
Steve Bowbrick
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  • Solution seeks problem, finds problem…

    Things change at different rates. Bandwidth, for instance, is all over the place. At the net’s core – in the trenches between ISPs and data centres – aggregate bandwidth in the last decade has multiplied by… ooh… a million? Up the path to your house, though, it’s barely doubled. What have you got, right now?…

  • Like my new look?

    Handsome, huh? I used Firda Beka’s excellent Firdamatic to generate the stylesheet and basic templates and Paul drew the picture of me. I’ve got to finish detailing the stylesheet, reinstate some odds and ends (like search) and figure out why the new stylesheet seems to kill off my en-dashes – making lots of my entries…

  • Davis is wrong about the death penalty

    David Davis thinks he’s got his finger on the pulse. He thinks the opinion polls support his enthusiasm for the judicial execution of serial killers (how do you qualify, by the way? Two killings? Ten?). He’s wrong. He’s wrong not because the pollsters are lying or mistaken when they report that 62% of those surveyed…

  • Murphy drawn

    Paul Murphy, noted blogger and curator, who’s been drawing me lately, has been drawn himself ??by my five year-old Oliver. We gave the artist a picture of Paul standing around looking shifty in a bow tie at our wedding to work from. Click the small pic for a bigger one.

  • She blogs. She blogs…

    …(paraphrasing Ricky Martin). Juliet, who is my wife (and – some of you will remember – the author of the near-legendary proto-blog ‘bird’ back in about 1996), is blogging – and she has a lovely template and stylesheet courtesy of the estimable Firda. Expect sarcastic commentary on media, parenthood, home life, George Bush and… life…

  • A work of art…

    …if you ask me. Michel Gondry’s video for The White Stripes’ The Hardest Button to Button (helpfully ripped from TV by Ryan Cerbus because all the official versions seem to have been taken down). Discussed at Film and Video Magazine and at Gothamist (it’s a 35MB MPEG file, by the way).

  • Paul drew me, which is a good thing

    Enigmatic Paul Murphy has drawn my portrait from a photograph he found on the Internet. I think there’s a reasonable chance that this isn’t a drawing at all but just the application of the Photoshop ‘drawing’ filter to a photograph but I’m not asking – they don’t call him ‘Enigmatic Paul’ for nothing. Paul is…

  • Endless deferral

    Voodoo Pad is one of those applications that promises to get me organised. Of course, I long ago resigned myself to never actually getting organised – in fact, downloading and trying organisers like this one is my substitute for actually getting organised. My Powerbook’s hard drive is a graveyard for PIMs, contact trackers, unstructured databases, brainstorming…

  • I dreamt this

    If you dial 1471 from a BT phone you can find out the last number that called you (you can get the last five numbers now, in fact). If you dial 1671 (or something) you should get the next five numbers. You could charge a lot of money for a service like that.

  • Should I buy a Tivo?

    Never shy of jumping on a bandwagon nearly a year after it closes its UK operation, I’ve been bidding on Tivo PVRs (‘Personal Video Recorders’) at eBay. Do you think I should buy one? I don’t have Sky so can’t buy a Sky+ box (although maybe it would be a smart move for Sky to…