A few months ago I was looking through questions posted to the Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange site. If you're not familiar, Stack Exchange provides Q&A sites like Stack Overflow for specific areas, such as particular programming languages, technologies or other topics. And while observing the erratic...
Twitter is a wonderful communication and social media platform. It has everything: breaking news, political opinion, humor, celebrities, entertainment, special interest chat, and, well, anything. Individuals, companies, departments, projects, and more—really anyone or anything—can have a...
This weekend was Barcamp Blackpool – held at the Norbreck Castle Hotel in North Blackpool. It's the fourth event they've run since it kicked off in 2009 – and the second I've attended. Last year was great fun but I only stayed for the day – this time I stayed the night before and the night after,...
I've been blown away by so many things Google have done so far this year (and it's only March). They've done loads of work on Gmail which has incredibly made it even better; Gmail was already the best webmail service around, and it's been making life easier for millions of users all over the world...
I'm now on Twitter. If you're one of the people who have heard of Twitter and you're terrified that it will be the new Facebook which is the new MySpace, then please calm down, this is not the case. No-one is going to leave Facebook to join Twiter, they are not the same thing. Facebook...