Why?

Well – a few reasons.

I think Facebook has displaced a lot of what used to go in to a blog like this – the day to day commentary. For that Facebook is a more intuitive platform because it has the social graph associated with it.

The bigger thinking, articles and updates have stopped for a different reason; I stopped programming. I miss it and I still work with my development team every day – but really, now that Pixolüt is the size it is, I just can’t.

Every minute of the day counts when it comes to running a growing business and sharing the big ideas or thoughts from the days discoveries with the universe is the last thing on my mind.

So why keep the blog?

It’s time to hand the blog over to the guys at Pixolüt to continue the tradition. I think that as we share some of our thinking and projects together then this blog will see a lot more action and be a lot more use to the guys that used to read it again!

So, Merry Christmas… enjoy the break.

This is just another slap in the face after the last government launched their multi million ($185,000,000) dollar client side filtering software which was not only broken by a child the week it was released – today has shown that the take up rate for the software was abysmal and further – the whole thing was fundamentally flawed (read more).

When can the government FINALLY realize it is NOT in the IT business. Market forces exist for a reason – if you want to find a brilliant internet filter which parents can use – put it out to tender for existing vendors who have years of expertise in the space. Spend the money on public education and public awareness – which is what the government SHOULD be doing with our money. Heaven forbid you actually try to catch online criminals by funding the federal police appropriately.

Ultimately parents have the responsibility to protect their children and there are many free and paid products which do a spectacular job such as OpenDNS (www.opendns.com)…

As a citizen, taxpayer and parent I am FURIOUS!

Wondering why my damned workstation is running slow… is it three dev environments open at once? could it be a memory leak in the new app I built and am watching? Is it MSDE again? Maybe outlook? C’mon it must be a big app… maybe source control went crazy. Oh, but of course… Windows Media Player decided it OWNS my PC. What should be a background process of playing an MP3 becomes the sole purpose of my reason for computer ownership. Nice one boys. Between the IE7 behemoth and this crap I’m losing some faith.

…in case you can’t see it in the picture, thats 67% CPU usage by media player…

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D’oh!