So who broke Facebook? Come on, own up. I’ve noticed recently that Facebook is having a whole bunch of problems that are quite serious isues with regard to users. These include: Photo tag requests are not displayed correctly – when you click to view the tag request it appears people have tagged the search button, [...]

The setup for Rave On Air should have been very smooth today as the RC1 was prepared so all we had to do was boot up a computer, install the plugins and away… right? How wrong that is. After many problems with Macs, PC’s, connectors and lack of microphone input on G4s I finally booted [...]

Flash is finally working with MaxMSP, for all the good it is going to do. The Macs in the interaction lab have yet to have Flash Server installed on them and the demo version of MaxMSP is runs out today on everyones laptops. This means that nobody can come in over the weekend and work, [...]

This is a great video that I recently re-found after being forced to work on a Mac and talking about various problems with a friend who owns a Mac. This video perfectly sums up my feelings towards Mac. Its a love / hate thing.

The BBC reported the successful flight of a manned hydrogen fuelled plane developed by those boffins over at Boeing. They say it is paving the way for a new generation of ‘greener’ planes as the only by-product is heat and water vapour. I am sceptical of such lofty claims by developers of such technologies however [...]

If the creator of the web itself, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says he will change his ISP if they start to monitor his web activity then we are in a sorry state of affairs. In interview with the BBC he said “consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet” [...]

Microsoft has confirmed that they will not incorporate Blu-Ray technology into the Xbox 360. They’re argument is that they can still deliver HD content through the ‘rental’ of media through their Marketplace. Personally I think this is ridiculous. There were always rumors during the HD format war that Microsoft had deliberately invested in a failing [...]

A planned meeting by the FCC has been announced to tackle the problem of ‘traffic shaping’ – the process of ISP’s dictating access to certain websites, services (such as peer-2-peer) and bandwidth – which is apparently in violation of the ‘net neutrality’ policy employed by the FCC. “The issue of net neutrality has come to [...]

I just read this article which says that ISPs have shot down the governement’s plans to have them block or rigorously monitor a subscriber’s data. “surveillance and privacy laws explicitly forbid ISPs to inspect the contents of data…” “P2P technology is legally utilised in a number of commercial services including [the] BBC…” I am very [...]

Here’s one more reason not to go with ADSL. I thought Tiscali were a great ISP but it turns out they’re the same as all the rest. The part I’m worried about is “…Tiscali has indicated it wants to place a full block on peer-to-peer applications…” They say “…at peak times during the evening.” but [...]

I’m sitting here trying to browse the web… but I’m finding it VERY difficult. Its just soo slow for no apparent reason. Rob and I experienced this the other day whilst trying to play Xbox Live. uTorrent = Off (Was only downloading at 7kb/s anyway :S) Outlook = Unable to send emails (which is all [...]

Today we had a meeting with Flo and Greg and while I arrived late for it, I caught the tail end. The result was that Will was still single-minded and even Greg seemed to be frustrated by his conversation with Will about communicating. So the only option was for the tutors to declare all bets [...]

I’ve just realised that as much as I want this term to be over and the Berlin project to be far far away, when we have finished this…I might actually start learning something. Russell offered to give us some flash tutorials which I’m sure will have more real world applications than what Reinhard showed us [...]

Today I had a brief meeting with Omari and Yuki, only for about half an hour but we cleared a lot of things up and we all have stuff to be getting on with. I will be using my new found illustrator skills to mock up a few concepts for various aspects of the confirmed [...]