Jamie Montgomerie’s World Wide Web Log

The FSF has published their “5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G”.

Spam just gets weirder.

From a link on Hacker News (the occasionally interesting “Reddit for Erlang, Lisp and Haskell using proto-entrepreneurs”), this 2006 ACM Ubiquity article: Every programmer with a few years’ experience or education has heard the phrase “premature optimizat…

There is a fair amount of complaining on The Internets at the moment about Objective-C and Apple’s choice to use it for the iPhone.

This weekend, I cleaned out the ex-belongings of the previous residents of our flat that had been sitting in the sort-of-corridor-area outside our door since we moved in (if you’ve been in our flat, you’ll know what I mean).

“Which one accurately depicts the way your software treats the user in the event of an emergency?”

In which a five-minute hack to put the current working directory in the title bar of the Terminal descends into hours learning the surprising arcanities of BASH.

Taken when I opened my laptop in an Edinburgh coffee shop.

Easter’s just past, and Cadbury’s Creme Eggs are cheap.