Lee Jordan .org.uk

I found this podcast from the comfort in sound Livejournal community : illumination Audio, really great podcast playing mainly podsafe music with minimal chat. Just listening to show #21 and The Innocence Mission get a track featured, this after Glastonburypodcasting played a track from the band too.

Robyn over at diskobox.net had introduced me to the wonderfully strange vocals of the bands lead singer, via a CD sent at Christmas. I think if marooned on a desert island (made of deserts of course) Robyn would be in a select group of people that would make being stranded not so bad.

It certainly is a small podo/blogosphere!

within a year, from Adam Curry of MTV to the Oxford Dictionary, fusing two technologies together and creating a new content medium and dellivery platform :

“Podcast” (digital recording of a radio broadcast made available on the internet for downloading to a personal audio player). New words being added simply reflect the fact that the language naturally keeps expanding, said researchers at the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Next version of Windows is hit by fresh round of delays. “The software, until now known by its code name Longhorn, is due for release towards the end of 2006, half a decade after the launch of Windows XP”. what’s the best way for Open Source to gain an advantage on the desktop? Easy to install software and software ported to native code is needed for Linux, otherwise it’ll fail to gain useage on the desktop.

This is what Pishing looks like to a text based email reader, that doesn’t render HTML, blatently you can see that the link doesn’t go to PayPal but in fact looks on the surface as if it will log you into PayPal, when infact it takes you off to a fake site known here as www.login-user1692.info

An Announcement from Microsoft rolling up support for Windows 2000 and why this is bad news for Web Developers who design foo IE6 because of its install base (number of users). We, that is the devlopers and companies who refuse to move away from IE, might soon have to choose which version of IE to develop for and my gut feeling is that even though IE7 will fix some issues, many developers will stick with IE6

Nokia are playing the browser war smartly, the aim I assume is to get the best browser engine for the mobile market, currently lead by a little company from Norway, who are behind the Opera web browser. After getting involved with Opera, Nokia annouced plans to fully investigate a light but fully functional version of the Firefox web browser. Now it seems that Apple is pushing a version of KHTML for mobile content delivery. So with the iPaq packing more power (600Mhz) than my parent’s desktop PC how long will Pocket IE keep mobile web developers in the dark? Can the likes of Symbian/Nokia Opera/Firefox/Safari shine some light into the dim world of the IE only web developer?

The @media 2005 confrence looks like being the first held in London dealing with web standards, accessibility including of course technologies very close to my heart, CSS and XHTML. “The conference would prove valuable for those wanting to make the most out of their web sites: ‘It’s a unique opportunity to learn about the most cutting-edge, best-practice methodologies from the best in the business.”

Browse Safe : Getfirefox.com

Safari, MacOSX’s default web browser, has its rendering engine based on a technology called KHTML, which is the engine that displays web pages on the KDE platform for Linux. Unfortunatly it now seems that KDE developers were getting very little from Apple and now Apple have almost stuck the preverbial finger up at KDE. Meanwhile Gecko which is the engine that powers Mozilla has benefited from being set free from Netscape and now finds its way into many open source browsers, Firefox is shaking up the market in big ways. Is this the example to the world of how open source should be allowed to work in a comercial environment?

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Two Irainan bloggers have been jailed for writing in their online diaries.

The crackdown against blogging world wide is becoming more and more of a problem, and you’d be suprised at how many people you know have a blog. A blog is a personal diary that the world can read, because it’s […]