The Irvken Experience

A post to celebrate my upgrade to the lovely WordPress2

…. and in the style I nicked off NTK.
Programming languages evolving out of markup extension another small step to emergent AI? More crap from Mexico Jamies Newtonmas present (if I had the money ). More time lapse fun. The economics of poverty seems currently fashionable, interesting new book follow up to Freakanomics, by the guy who contributed the “Economics of the Crack gang” research in that book.

I completely missed Bristol radical history Week, but manged to crawl out in the rain for the launch of the Ian Bone book. . My friend Woodsy, the sort of person for whom community blogging was invented has deserted the council for Straightouttaeaston. IP spotting – very “nerdy” and pointless I know. I’m not alone in my hatred of Rob Enderle. Lifehacking procrastination tool.

Wot! No Voip!

Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon
One of the world’s largest computer and consumer electronics manufacturers will ship a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less, in Q1, 2007. First International Computing’s (FIC’s) “Neo1973″ or FIC-GTA001, is the first phone based on the open-source “OpenMoKo” platform.