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Shameless plug, I use www.thebuckyball.com to handle all email contacts and social friends, but that's because I wrote the backend, (in erlang) for those interested.

I actually worked on the 9000 Communicator when I worked for Geoworks in the UK, many moons ago. We also worked on the Seiko Epson locatio, phone with PDA browser and GPS all in 19…

That's why I switched from Google, the !bang feature is something I could not live without now.

That is a really nice summation.

Nothing after Erlang, does that mean its perfect :)

I have just stared learning Erlang after more or less leaving Java, and the heavy weight world of J2EE. I was surprised how easy I have found learning Erlang maybe it just seemed t…

That font affect hurts my eyes.

OK cheers, I thought it was a bit drastic.

Am i reading this right, are they dropping Swing from JDK7 release?

Also "Apophis, a 25 million ton celestial body will narrowly miss our planet three times in succession. The first near-miss is expected on the superstitious date of Friday 13th 202…

It probably should display informix as an option, but got a row lock error.

Developing a statistics system for the football premier league in the UK.

I also started with a ZX81, I still have all the docs that came with it, the ZX81 got binned while I was away at University to my horror. I used to play 3D Monster Maze on it all t…

Huge data sets is the new Oil, processing this new huge data is where the big money will be in the future.

I have just started using LaTex for documentation at work, after years struggling with Word, its a real revelation.

That takes me back, I used to use NC on my 486 at university, great app in its day.