Getting to know the Python blog engine Pelican
Someone recently remarked to me that you can think of hardware as software that's developed really slowly. While the software space has been going wild over cloud computing it's been pretty quiet on the hardware side of the equation. But, that's going to change as we see a new class …
A very long time ago, in a parallel universe managing backups on Linux was a real headache. If you can remember all the way back to the mid 90's these wasn't journaling or iSCSI and Linux wasn't as stable as it is now - so having good backups was your only …
The BBC is under pressure at the moment as it renews its charter and secures funding from the government. Politicians and competitors are lobbying hard to have it "reformed" more towards their interests. Politicians want an easier ride, and the big media owners want less competiton. It's hilarious reading the …
The French parliament is proposing a new law to free consumers from DRM lock-in. Essentially, a media system that operated a format lock-in would have to provide information so that other technical systems could interoperate. There's more coverage on the BBC and Business Week. It's widely seen as an attack …
With FeedBlitz your readers are notified with the full text of new blog entries you publish. On Wordpress.com I couldn't get the default way of linking to work. The Links (the boxes down the side of the blog) section seems to ignore form tags. To get around this you …