Tom Morris



2007.08.14

Cory Doctorow: "licence payers can just download the video for free from UKNova, the Pirate Bay and their ilk. After all, if you're going to bother becoming tech-literate, why waste the energy learning to use official crippleware that gives you less, when you can just teach yourself to download the videos that your more savvy neighbours have put on the net?" The funny thing is that downloading BBC content off BitTorrent is easier than using the iPlayer. I can figure out how to install a BitTorrent client. I can't figure out how to upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. Perhaps I'm just a bit dim. But I'll stick to the BitTorrent method. It has the minor inconvenience of being illegal, but it has the major convenience of actually working as technology should work - in the interests of the user. 2007-08-14T14:35:40ZUntitled entry permalink

Ian and Matt have pictures from today's Defective by Design iPlayer anti-DRM protests at BBC Television Centre in London. The protest also got lots of diggs, and, no doubt, all the usual moronic comments you've come to expect from our friends at digg. 2007-08-14T14:04:24ZUntitled entry permalink

I really think that the Dock is a neglected part of OS X design. See this blog post for some good thoughts on the Dock. One thing I hate is how everyone adds menus to the top-right hand corner of the Mac, so much so that on small laptop screens, it interferes with the menus. You've got a Dock icon. Add useful functions to the Dock context menu. I want to be able to right click on that and do something useful, rather than having your app take up space in the top-right of my screen. 2007-08-14T03:33:42ZUntitled entry permalink

Want to see something funny? InfoWorld are reporting that OASIS are forming six new committees to help simplify the WS-*/SOA stack. Of course, just using REST and actually minimizing the level of complexity will be very close to their mind. I've recently been developing software to work with a mixture of REST and XML-RPC. It's surprisingly easy, and both approaches are quite good. Both are possible because you can just about hold it all inside your head. 2007-08-14T03:23:16ZUntitled entry permalink

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Tom Morris
Currently in: East Sussex, England
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. 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.

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