The legend of the Chinny Raccoon

The legend of the Chinny Raccoon

Well here we go, second time lucky… (more on this later in this blog entry) I am pleased to see the masterful John Leach has included the mighty Chinny Raccoon on Linus’ t-shirt on the [latest Everybody Loves Eric...
On mobile phone design…

On mobile phone design…

Today I sat in a talk about Windows Mobile, and the way that Microsoft are making mobile devices more flexible and usable for a variety of different purposes. We were shown a bunch of demos of applications running on the devices, interface improvements and there was...
Planet Advocacy and…advocacy

Planet Advocacy and…advocacy

As some of you will be aware, I run [Planet Advocacy](https://planetadvocacy.jonobacon.com/), and you can read the combined wisdom of Linux advocates including Reverend Ted, Benjamin Mako Hill, Dave Neary, Zak Greant and others. Tim Joyce mailed me to be added to the...
On mobile phone design…

Microsoft Summit Day 1

Well, here I am in Seattle. After hours of travelling and virtually no sleep over the last two days, I am finally checked in having attended my first day at the Microsoft Technical Summit. This is a three day conference in which an invited audience are put in the same...
The legend of the Chinny Raccoon

Nottingham LUG and Jokosher

Wow, busy day yestersay. Got into work pretty early and did a seminar on building dynamic websites with PHP and MySQL. Reasonable turnout for 9am and lots of interesting questions. I then spent much of the day preparing for my talk in Oxford next week and finishing up...