2007.06.05
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Shelley Powers has some smart things to say about the open sourcing of Movable Type. I'm glad that MT is open source - as it's actually a pretty cool platform. It looks like TypePad and LiveJournal have paid off for Six Apart. Good for them. They are actually something of an anomaly - a software company rather than a Valley-funded media company. 2007-06-05T21:09:06Z
Palm have just released a new Bluetooth keyboard for us long-suffering Palm users. I'm using an infra-red keyboard and it works fine for me, but it's good to know that there's a BT one available also. 2007-06-05T21:06:49Z
I wonder whether the accompanying photograph for this Valleywag post is going over the heads of some of our trans-Atlantic friends. I certainly found it funny! Of course, Wikipedia is there to provide context. 2007-06-05T20:34:31Z
NetNewsWire 3.0 has just been released. It supports microformats, has improved performance and has a new look. Nice, but I've just switched to Google Reader because of the Google Gears integration! 2007-06-05T14:50:17Z
It looks like Americans are catching on to unlocked phones. I haven't actually unlocked my phone - I haven't needed to - but I like that I can for probably not more than £15. 2007-06-05T14:23:11Z
Tim Bray has an analysis of O'Reilly's "State of the Computer Book Market". I don't put tremendous value on these, as I've written before, because use of a language or technology does not necessarily correlate with buying a book on the subject. 2007-06-05T12:50:41Z
Wowza, MacZot is selling Jaikoz MP3 tagger for $12.95 today. It looks like a pretty amazing MP3 tagging system - it also hooks in to MusicBrainz and MusicIP's Acoustic ID to identify tracks. 2007-06-05T12:40:29Z
Remember the Milk, the great online to-do list manager, has added support for Google Gears - meaning you can now Get Things Done on (underground) trains and (very overground) planes and other non-Intynetified places. 2007-06-05T12:34:26Z
Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org
I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.
I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.
Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.
I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.
