Angus Thinks...

A Microsoft vision of the future

Angus Hardie — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:12:42 +0000

A vision of a technology future that is almost magical in its fluidity and the absence of any obvious equipment. This is what the future should be:

Helpful forums?

Angus Hardie — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:32:19 +0000

Spotted recently in a technical forum (which shall remain nameless):

Your answers are useless. Thank you anyway. I found answers on my questions from another source.

Although I still don’t know what the final answer was, alas…

Real buyers getting tired of speculators

Angus Hardie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:32:18 +0000

Real cocoa buyers, who are probably chocolate manufacturers, are getting tired of excessive speculation in the cocoa market; they’ve threatened to move from London to unspecified US cocoa futures exchanges if something isn’t done to improve things:

Telegraph Article
(Third section, after Gold movements and Shipping rates)

I suppose speculation is good if it balances demand and evens out prices, but bad if the end customers feel that they are being cheated.

More

Another article: Mystery trader buys all Europe’s cocoa.

No wonder people are annoyed.

Apple WWDC videos

Angus Hardie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:23:07 +0000

Brilliant work on Apple’s part in releasing all of the WWDC videos to registered developers. In previous years these were only available for a fee (I seem to remember $500), so including them is very nice.

Pay to play?

Angus Hardie — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:13:20 +0000

back in my day, we didn’t pay to win a video game … we simply played them well

Marketing crazy

SQLEditor + Django

Angus Hardie — Sun, 16 May 2010 11:44:40 +0000

Good news everyone…

the new Django plugin for SQLEditor is now available.

It allows you to import, edit and export Django model classes with SQLEditor.

Django Plugin Page

There are some limitations still, in particular it doesn’t support all of the SQLEditor object types and there are some limitations with foreign key support, but the basics should work pretty nicely.

The Django plugin is also now built using the new SDK, which is getting closer to public release.

I’m really interested in knowing what people think of this, so a feedback on this is particularly welcome.

Election Day 2010 – Remember to Vote!

Angus Hardie — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:28:24 +0000

It’s the day of the UK general election.

It’s your democratic duty to vote!

If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the government we get.

So please vote

Warburtons Ad

Angus Hardie — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:29:19 +0000

Warburtons Bread Advert

It made me laugh, anyway.

(On their own site too)

safari supports pdf in img tag

Angus Hardie — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:21:23 +0000

I didn’t know this before but it definitely seems to work.

SVG is more compatible for web pages, though this could be useful for embedded webkit apps.

From High DPI Websites

Idea: EU prize for learning all of the European languages

Angus Hardie — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:25:12 +0000

In the nature of the European cooperation, I propose that the European Union should give out prizes to people who can speak significant numbers of european languages.
Perhaps 1 million euros for a person speaking all of the EU significant languages.

Then smaller prizes for people who speak some fraction (5 or 10 different languages perhaps)
I don’t know how many people could manage the million euro level (perhaps only a few hundred people, maybe even none?) but it would be a good thing to encourage us all to speak each other’s languages.

It would also offer a clear and obvious reward to study languages. (Like winning the lottery, just more predictably achievable)