* Posts by Douglas Smith

8 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2008

Opera Software asks fat lady to stay schtum for a bit, but keep humming

Douglas Smith

Opera also took over the old Nokia Store so the last official resting place for Symbian and S60 apps is at risk but AppList is still available

Amazon UK to offer collection service at corner shops

Douglas Smith

Amazon Lockers ?

I wonder if this is instead of or as well as the Amazon Locker system where Yodel delivers to a bank of lockers in say a Co-op store and then you enter a code to extract the goods - worked fine when I tried it.

Educating Verity the OU way

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It doesn't stop there

Year after year you will get the begging letters from the OU - strangely they are the only ones who use the MSc

Shame you did not get to go to a study centre or mini-summer school - I heartily recommend the soggy days at the Sheffield campus

Before the iPad, there was the Newton

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There are fixes for the Year 2010 problem out there

and quite an active NewtonTalk mailing list too

( OK so my 120 is currently doing sterling service as a paperweight )

BCS civil war heats up ahead of crunch general meeting

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..and change the goalposts too

One of the amendments that the Trustees want to wave through with this vote is to change the numbers needed to call an EGM from 50 to 2% of the membership so they hope they won't be bothered again

i.e. my votes have gone against the current Trustees

Guy Kewney dies at 63

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RIP Guy

Not only was his the most often read article in PCW but he also ran a good ( or always interesting ) set of topics on CIX for years

UK competition authority probes Amazon

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however ....

Abebooks are owned by Amazon

Terry Pratchett knighted for services to literature

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Happy

At last

Finally some great news on the last day in 2008

Couldn't happen to a better chap

... and Mistress Weatherwax was nowhere around honestly