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October 2006 Entries
Dave Armano is watching an interesting thread started by Greg Verdino. Apparently blogging was banned at this week's Nielsen BuzzMetric client-only conference on consumer generated media. Source: Micro Persuasion Oh come on guys, really?! A conference on consumer generated media where you're not allowed to blog?! I mean you couldn't make up stuff like this. Okay, I get it that you might want to run a conference where delegates have paid a lot of money to attend and to get content that can't be gotten anywhere else. I get it that if the content leaks out on blogs etc, that your brand's value will be diluted. But unless you're a complete PR newbie you can't have a consumer generated media conference that falls into this category.
Boing Boing says... I received a couple of emails from YouTube this afternoon notifying me that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. If you visit YouTube, all Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips now show “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.” Well that sounds fair enough; I mean it's just some company looking after its IP, no big deal, no story there really. Until you consider this... If people want to take the show in various forms, I’d say go. But when you’re a part of something successful and meaningful, the rule book says don’t try to analyze it too much or dissect it. You shouldn’t say: “I really want to know what fans think. I really want to understand how people are digesting our show.” Because that is one of those things that you truly have no control over. The one thing that you have control over is the content of the show. But how people are reacting to it, how it’s being shared, how it’s being discussed, all that other stuff, is absolutely beyond your ability to control. That's the Daily Show's Executive Producer seeming to give carte blanche for people to do what they wanted. As long as it was marketing the show it was all good. Now, it seems, that they have made their money, they don't want the fanbase "diluting" their brand. All this asks questions about viral marketing. Since you can't "un-ring a bell" PR departments have to take a long hard look at whether or not they want the community to viral market their product, and if they do, then that has to stand for all time. Otherwise everyone loses, especially the corporates whom the communities will no longer trust. After putting in hours of work and then having the rug yanked out from under them, they will no longer be willing to work as unpaid marketeers and viral marking will fail. Source: Boing Boing
The information below shows what a ridiculous state the U.S. patent system has gotten itself into, and a good demonstration of why we must resist European software patents. For years, there have been a handful of companies trying to figure out how to erect a toll booth on the Web, if not the Internet altogether. In other words, they've been looking for some way to ensure that the Internet or some portion thereof can't work unless they get to collect a royalty on the majority of the Internet's traffic. Now, if a patent infringement suit filed by IBM against Amazon.com holds up in court, Big Blue may have finally found a way to collar the Web (or most of it). It may be a decade before we know the answer. Source: ZDNet.com Technorati tags: US Patent, Amazon, IBM
The Ajax talk in Edinburgh, last night, was well attended and seemed to go well. I said I'd post up the presentation for anyone who wanted it, so you'll find links to it here. Technorati tags: Ajax Presentation
Google will on Tuesday launch a customisable search engine that users can carry on their own blogs and other websites, a move that potentially opens up a big new market for its search listings and related advertising. Source: FT.com The ability to roll your own search engine for your site, will no doubt come with Google ads. Hmm, I'm not sure I want their ads on my site (I'd rather have my own :) ) and there is a bit of competition already in this field. It'll be interesting to see how this works out for Google.
Problem You have to justify text left, right and centre. Solution Dolphin Smalltalk has no built in methods to achieve this so you have to extend the string class with the new functionality. The following method shows how to justify text to the left by a given number. leftJustify: aNumberOfChars
"Answer a new string that is self + a Number of spaces long, left justified"
| aStringOfSpaces totChars |
(aNumberOfChars <= self size) ifTrue: [^self].
totChars := self size.
totChars := (aNumberOfChars - totChars).
aStringOfSpaces := String new.
totChars timesRepeat: [aStringOfSpaces := aStringOfSpaces , (32 asCharacter asString)].
^self , aStringOfSpaces.
To justify text to the right and to the centre is just a variation on the same theme.
Recently I came across the BBC's Motion Gallery. Here's how they describe themselves...
Encompassing 500 million feet of film and 400,000 hours of video, the unrivalled BBC archive spans over 8 million subject categories - and it’s growing by the minute.
Wow, sounds like a great resource for us vloggers. But hold on, wait a minute, what's this? Ah the licensing terms...
Licensing material from BBC Motion Gallery is very easy. We can tailor a licence agreement to suit your specific needs and our sales staff can help you through every step of the process. This page contains some basic information that will help you understand your motion imagery licensing options.
Well that's fair enough, afterall the BBC is an internationally recognised authority in journalism, their material will be first rate, so we shouldn't mind paying for it. I mean, they have a vast news gathering machine to pay for.
Oh, but hold on. I'm a UK citizen. The BBC is wholly funded by UK tax payers. As tax payers we've already paid for this content, why are we being charged twice?!
The BBC, or the government, has to make up it's mind here; either the BBC is a corporate entity or it is not. If it is, then fine, we must pay for it's content but that means no BBC licence tax fee. If it is not a corporate entity then it should not be allowed to charge us for content that we have already paid for.
On the same subject, material that is copyright of the BBC should belong to the nation. We paid for it. The copyright should be ours. Okay, the BBC should be the entity that administers said copyright, but it should lie with the nation. In my opinion, citizens of other countries should have to pay this license fee for the content, but we've already paid, we should get it for free.
Meet the “20-minute rule” that guides fateful decisions in Silicon Valley. Craig Johnson, managing director of Concept2Company Ventures, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, Calif., who has 30 years of experience in early-stage financings, said he knew many venture capitalists who adhered to this doctrine: if a start-up company seeking venture capital is not within a 20-minute drive of the venture firm’s offices, it will not be funded. Source: New York Times Well that's okay. I've got a cool new venture that I'll be sure to get funding for when I make my pitch, I'll just move my operation out to Silicon Valley and it's a done deal. On no, wait a minute, I can't. The US as such stringent immigration policies that there's no way I'd be able to move out there. Ah well, it's a good job there's no good technology outside of the US eh?! Hmm, I wonder what Shel Israel is finding to look at during his odyssey?
A U.S. law aimed at cracking down on Internet gambling may drive the practice more into the shadows and do little to deter bettors Source: Business Week Gee, now there's a surprise; I mean prohibition worked so well in the States during the '30s, I can't think what would make people think that trying to ban online gambling in this day and age would drive it underground. :)
TOKYO (Reuters) -- Google Inc.'s YouTube.com removed 29,549 video files from its popular Web site after receiving a demand from a group of Japanese media companies over copyright infringement, an industry group said Friday. Source: CNN If this is a demonstration of how well Google are going to stand up to big business, I think we can all see where YouTube is going. This is dangerous for Google, I think Google bought YouTube for access to its audience. Now if Google alienate that audience, with this sort of crap, and they move elsewhere, how does Google's investment look then?
The nominations for the vloggies have now closed and we're up for two awards. One for The (British) Open 2007 vlog and one for The Dundee Mercury. Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to put their two big vlogs in the Corporate/organisation category (that's the one that the Carnoustie vlog is in) instead of the tech category; so we are up against extremely strong competition (let's face it, we're gonna get creamed LOL). Which means, we need all the help we can get; so if you have the time, pop across to the site and cast your vote for us :)
Well now you can check out this diagram which explains it all. :)
...No really, I'm serious, don't press play; if you do, you'll hate yourself forever. I did try to warn you :) Technorati tags: YouTube, Comedy
Just a little reminder that I'll be giving a talk, in Edinburgh, on AJAX (details below). I've given it twice before and it's been pretty well received. Drop me a comment here if you are planning to come and don't forget to say "hi" on the night. :) | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 | | 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM | Talk: Introduction to AJAX
Speaker: Gary Short, Computa Service Limited AJAX, an acronym coined by Jesse James Garrett, is not a language but an approach to developing web-based applications. It utilises a set of technologie... | THE ROYAL SCOTS CLUBABERCROMBY PLACE Edinburgh, EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM EH3 6QE |
The new version of IE is out and it's a bit of a mixed bag by all accounts... Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7 but only for Windows XP SP2 users. If you are running a previous version of Microsoft Windows, you'll need to upgrade to Windows XP SP2 first. A slightly more secure version of Internet Explorer 7 will be released in January 2007 with the Windows Vista operating system. Notable among the new features within IE 7 for Windows XP are a redesigned interface, tabbed browsing, a built-in RSS feed reader, and a new Favorites Center. Despite nearly two and half years of development, the new browser falls short of complying with Web standards and of matching features found in competing browsers, and despite an aggressive marketing campaign to the contrary, IE 7 is not that much more secure that IE 6, in part because of its reuse of old IE 6 code and a crippling legacy that Microsoft is slow to patch existing IE flaws. Source: CNET
I know it's not fashionable right now, but I happen to think the US is a great country. I'd move there to live and work in a heart-beat. Unfortunately, the current government seems to have taken leave of it's senses. I am confident that, in the fullness of time, this moment of madness will be corrected. Until that time comes, and since you seem to have forgotten, I would like to remind the great people of The United States of America of the following things [emphasis mine]... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. And... Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. And as the time comes to cast your vote in elections, perhaps you should recall these words from The Declaration of Independence... That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government
 I've just been given an account on Soapbox, so I popped across there and uploaded a couple of videos. First impressions are good. The site is nice and clear and easy to use, as you can see from the picture; although it does seem to take an age to upload videos when compared with YouTube.
Another thing that seems a bit odd is that the only way to get at the linking information for your video is to click on it. Clicking on it starts the video and that counts as a view. This means it's difficult to tell how many people are actually viewing your videos as you tramp all over your own stats. Also, I don't seem to be able to get an image to appear for my profile, though that is maybe not bad thing. :) They don't support 16:9 resolution video, choosing to "black band" it instead. This is not a huge problem as YouTube don't either, but you'd think since Soapbox was a "me too" site, then it would have had this feature. Just like YouTube, Soapbox allows for easy embedding of video in your blog page, see below, and the viewer is quite nice. I think I prefer it to YouTube, on the whole, and I'll be using it in future.
The company said that a small number of video iPods made after Sept. 12 included the RavMonE virus. It said it has seen fewer than 25 reports of the problem, which it said does not affect other models of the media player, nor does it affect Macs. Source: CNET News.com Technorati tags: Apple, iPod, Virus
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. is on track in 2006 to become the first company ever to pocket 25% of all U.S. online ad spending in a calendar year, according to a new report from eMarketer, an online ad tracker. Source: MarketWatch Wow, that's a hell of a lot of advertising money!
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 | | 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM | Xtreme Tayside
Xtreme Tayside meet every second week to promote the ideas of agile software engineering methodologies; everybody welcome!!... | | Dundee University, Queen Mother Building |
Hey, you new media types might want to "sharpen your pencils" for this announcement from the BBC. The BBC, in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, is bringing the BBC Innovation Lab to Scotland for the first time. The Lab aims to uncover the latest innovations from Scottish companies and consortia which could become the 'next big thing' in broadcasting and new media. Source: Interactive Tayside News Technorati tags: BBC, Innovation Lab
With a view like this from his office window, how does Dave Winer get any work done? Hey Dave, do you need any help over there, I could certainly do with missing another cold, wet Scottish winter? :) 
Technorati tags: Dave Winer, Office, View
Is the MPAA finally seeing sense? It sounds like it from this comment. "I understand that if we frustrate the consumer, they will simply pirate the content," he said. "The issue we face today is that consumers are buying content that uses specific DRM and that, in turn, is gradually creating a world of separate DRM systems." Source: MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate - Yahoo! News Now all we need is for the MPAA to accept that we consumers have a right to "fair use" and everything will be fine. It may be a cold day in hell, but everything will be fine :) Technorati tags: MPAA, Fair Use, Pirate
Testing whether an object is string-like. Problem You have to test if an object is a string, or string-like. Solution Use the built in method isString. Evaluate the following lines in Dolphin Smalltalk to see how it works. 'Hello World!' isString.
$A isString. This also works for user defined sub-classes of String, as demonstrated in the next code segment which should be evaluated in Dolphin Smalltalk. | aString | aString := MyString new.
aString isString
Reuters is opening a news bureau in the simulation game "Second Life" this week, joining a race by corporate name brands to take part in the hottest virtual world on the Internet. Source: CNET News.com Psst! Guys, you do not it's not real don't you? Never mind Second Life, some of you need to find yourselves a first life. :) Technorati tags: Reuters, Second Life
I want to acknowledge our error in failing to be transparent about the identity of the two bloggers from the outset. This is 100% our responsibility and our error; not the client's. Source: Richard Edelman - 6 A.M.: A Commitment Yes, it's a commitment alright, and an acknowledgement that he got caught trying to have us all over. The thing is though, he doesn't actually say he's sorry in the post. He doesn't even say he was sorry he got caught. He just re-iterates his commitment to the WOMMA guidelines he just broke. Jeez, sorry does seem to be the hardest word sometimes.
Recently I had to write a feed generating tool for the Dundee Mercury web site. One of the things this tool had to do was to work out the size of a file pointed to by a given url, but I didn't want to download the whole file as it was a several megabyte long video file. Turns out, the way to do it is to send the HTTP HEAD request and then access the ContentLength attribute. The code below does it in C# 2.0 HttpWebRequest hwr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url_to_file);
hwr.Method = "HEAD";
HttpWebResponse hwrp = (HttpWebResponse)hwr.GetResponse();
string length =
hwrp.contentLength.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
hwrp.close();
Technorati tags: HTTP HEAD, C#
Microsoft Corp. did an about-face yesterday, agreeing to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors, such as those who make popular antivirus and anti-spyware programs. Source: washingtonpost.com Good job! Can you imagine a world where you have to trust MS to provide software that protects against vulnerabilities in their own operating system? MS need to concentrate on making a secure-as-possible operating system and let "new eyes" look for places where they messed up.
Sometimes, when I sit at home of an evening, contemplating my rapidly rising energy bills, my car that needs replacing and my kids quickly approaching university age; I think to myself perhaps I should take the red pill and go back to contracting. I mean how hard can it be? You just submit your resume to one or two agents and sit back and let the work come in. Okay so the agents take a cut but that's off what the client pays, not what you see, so there's no big deal there and everyone's got to make a living right? Hmmm, the thing is, it's not that simple anymore. If you do it like that then there is a very good chance that you'd be caught by IR35. Don't know what IR35 is? Well it's one of our Gordon's little stealth taxes designed to send all contractors back to where they belong, safe inside the cubes of large corporates, who carry the cost of calculating the tax for the government - kind of like the government outsourcing the tax collection to the people from whom they are collecting the tax. Talk about adding insult to injury :) I mean, I wouldn't say the government were picking on IT contractors per se, but when you are actually mentioned (by name) in the legislation, you've got to wonder. Anyway, what IR35 does is to tax you as if you were an employee of the company to which you are contracting, even though you get none of the benefits of being an employee (holiday pay, sickness pay etc.) in short, it's a horrible little piece of legislation. What it means is, if you want to go it alone, you have to do just that, go it alone. Meaning you have to find your own clients. And how are you supposed to find your own clients whilst you are working for clients? Well you can't can you? The only way you can do it is to be a "rockstar" so well known in the industry that you are the "go to guy", and that's not me I'm afraid. I don't have a flow of people emailing me looking for me to come and contract for them. Which means I'll just have to put the bills behind the clock on the mantelpiece and head off back to work on Monday. Gee, you'd think that's what the government planned when they brought out the legislation. :)
David Mannion, the editor in chief of ITN, said the company would fully support Mr Lloyd's family to "bring those responsible for Terry's death to account before a court of law". Source: ITN Really? Well best of luck with that one. You don't seriously believe, even if you had the support of the British government (and you don't), that you could bring any sort of pressure on the US government do you? Well if you do let me disabuse you of that belief. There is NO chance of this happening. I understand that this is a tragic loss for the Lloyd family. I also understand that bringing those responsible to account would bring some closure to their grief; but it's just not going to happen; and tragic though it obviously is, that is the best conclusion in my opinion. The reason for this is simple. The men responsible for this were at war. Those who judged them are not; they had the luxury of taking months to study the correctness of a judgement that the marines made in seconds. In my opinion, that luxury allows them to say whether their judgement was right or wrong. It does not allow them to stand in judgement. The court should have said the killing was wrong, an accident, like so many accidents of war (a blue on blue if you like). It should be noted. Action should be taken to try and ensure it does not happen again. But that's it, soldiers should be allowed to leave their mistakes on the battlefield. War is hard enough to get over without people, who have no concept of what fighting for your life is like, judging you and hounding you for your mistakes. That is why the US will do nothing to bring the marines to "account", and why that is the correct course of action. Having said that I, of course, extend my deepest sympathies to the Lloyd family.
Hmm, the following sounds like another +1 for Linux on the desktop. "The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the "licensed device," reads the license for Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and Business. In other words, once a retail copy of Vista is installed on a PC, it can be moved to another system only once. Source: TechWeb
This will be interesting for us, as we resell these laptops. Fujitsu will soon join two other major PC makers in putting on sale a portable computer that uses flash memory in place of the traditional hard-disk drive. Source: Digital World Tokyo
Here come the ambulance chasers. It didn't take long for the wolves to start sniffing around now that someone with deep pockets owns YouTube. Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, fired a shot across the bows of Google, saying his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site YouTube.com. Source: Guardian Unlimited
Owners of Apple Computer's new 13-inch MacBook notebooks, whose systems are plagued by intermittent shutdown issues, have become fed up with extended repair times and inadequate resolutions to the problem, and are now organizing a class action lawsuit against the Mac maker. Source: AppleInsider Gee, now where is that link to the advert that said Macs don't crash? :) Technorati tags: Apple, Mac, Crash, Lawsuit
This man has a brain the size of a small planet, hell he may even be smarter than me. :) Eric Billingsley used to design nuclear power plants, but his new job is no less interesting: he is the senior director of eBay’s new research labs. Come along and listen as he tells you what eBay is up to and how he built eBay’s new search engine. He also gives us a demo of the latest stuff from their research labs. It should be said that this stuff is experimental and has not been shipped to eBay yet. Source: ScobleShow
Let me tell you how it works in the US of A. You walk into Best Buy. Ask for a credit application. Fill it out. They approve you for $10,000 on the spot (as long as you’ve paid all your credit card bills on time). You head over to the big screen department, pick out your $4,000 big screen and your $600 Playstation 3, and a $500 HD-DVD drive. Then you pay something like $140 per month in payments. Source: Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger Yeah? Well let me tell you how it works in the UK. You walk into Currys, ask for a credit application, fill it out. They approve you for £10,000 on the spot. You buy the kit. They then sell you an over priced warranty ('cos lets face it, that's where they make their money) that cost also goes on your credit bill. Oh, and by the way, you're paying 20% apr on that. Things go alright for the first few months, you're paying the minimum payments afterall. Then you realise instead of going down your bill is actually going up, as the interest is more than the minimum payments. You now owe more than you did when you started paying. If you can't afford to pay more than the minimum payments, you have a choice, get a loan from the bank (at a sensible apr) and pay off the credit. If you can't do that then it's down the pub to speak to Joe "who lends cash from time to time" and now you are in a world of sh!t. My advice? Get a bank loan in the first place. Better still, open an account, pay in what you can a month and when you have the required amount then buy the kit. Oh, and stay the hell away from Joe :)
Scotland's fantastic start to Euro 2008 qualifying came to a halt as they toppled to defeat in Kiev. Source: BBC SPORT | Football
... then you'll find this a very cool comment system.
Sequoia, which is among the most successful venture firms in Silicon Valley, invested a total of $11.5 million in YouTube from November 2005 to April 2006. It may be walking away with more than 43 times that amount. Its stake in YouTube has been estimated at roughly 30 percent, which would give it a value of $495 million. Source: Venture Firm Shares a YouTube Jackpot - New York Times Doesn't this scenario almost define the term bubble?
...Michael and I believe that you should need a licence to connect to the Internet. It's like driving really. You want to drive on you own land where you are the only piece of traffic there? No problem, knock yourself out. You want to drive on the public highway with the rest of us? Right, well first you have to pass a competency based test. He set up a PC devoid of any sensible anti-virus software and firewall protection and left it online to see what would happen. The results were – to the uninitiated – fairly spectacular, not to say alarming. When he put the “honeypot” machine online it was, on average, hit by a potential security assault every 15 minutes. Source: BBC NEWS | The Editors
Yes our technology vlog is live! The Dundee Mercury is a vlog site dedicated to bringing you up to the minute news on what's going on in the tech world in Dundee and the surrounding area. Dundee is a UK hub for digital media and so there's a lot of companies doing some really interesting stuff in the areas of computer/mobile games, software engineering and digital design - and we'll be bringing you all the news from there.
But that's not all! Dundee is also a centre of excellence for bio-science and we'll be covering that too. So pop across and pay us a visit. Don't forget to leave a comment (it's the only way we'll improve) on the site or mail me directly, but most of all... enjoy! :)
1.65 Billion USD wow. After the announcement below, let the suing (for copyright) begin! MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community. Source: Google Press Center: Press Release I've been listening to Google's investor conference call at http://investor.google.com/webcast.html the big take aways seem to be that both YouTube and Google video will continue as before, because of their brands and their communities, and that Google will be doing more to protect the rights of copyright holders - though it's not clear how that's going to work. This could be bad for Google, now there's a company owning YouTube who have deep pockets. On the other hand of course it could be bad for the RIAA as Google aren't going to be pushed around, nor intimidated by the RIAA who are tiny compared to Google. You know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Google hasn't squared things away with the RIAA prior to taking over YouTube. Interesting comment from both Sergei and Eric that this is the next generation of the Internet and it's being driven by social networks and video. Update: 10/10/2006 - Hmmm, looks like I was right about Google squaring away the RIAA
Across on Mike's blog he has the following to say about why he's not been posting much recently ...Gary and I have finished work on a new technology vlog for Tayside. We’re going round technology (and not just IT) companies in and around Dundee and interviewing them about any new stuff they’ve got happening which the general public and the technology sector in particular would be interested in. It’ll be sort of along the same lines as PodTech.net So watch this space for an announcement soon… Source: Michael S. Clark Yep, keep your eyes open on this blog, or on Mike's, for some really exciting news coming real soon :)
Whoo hoo, fire in the hole! Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 (RC 2), the latest preview release of the next version of the Firefox browser, is now available for download. Web application developers, our testing community, and users who want to get a sneak peek at the next version of Firefox should download and install this release candidate. Please note that at this time, users should not expect all of their extensions, plugins and themes from previous versions of Firefox to work properly. Source: Mozilla Developer News
Well there's something you don't see every day :) Scotland sit proudly at the top of Euro 2008 qualifying Group B after a fabulous win over France at Hampden. Source: BBC SPORT
The recent mid-air collision in Brazil of a new regional airliner (fitted out for use as a business jet) and a Boeing 737 has people baffled. How could two brand-new airplanes with advanced avionics, flown by two professional pilots in each plane, collide at 37,000′? The precision of modern avionics may well have contributed to this collision. Source: Philip Greenspun’s Weblog
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