Deploying servers inside of IBM is fairly easy. It normally consists of finding an old Thinkpad or desktop machine, sticking it under your desk and finding a long enough ethernet cable to reach from the network port across the far side of the office. My trusty 5 year old IBM desktop has happily [...]

Supernova 2006 is running a second life session and I am there with lots of famous names

right now we are partying for the second life third birthday

How the spare time project of a researcher at IBM could have you tilting your ThinkPad to high scores in both Windows and Linux.

This weekend is when the third birthday celebrations for Second Life take place

Where can you sit out in the sun amidst a beautiful country estate and have a full english breakfast and pot of tea served to you for £3? In Hursley’s clubhouse of course. Are you sure you still don’t want that job?

The emerging tech group I work in has started having [...]

If you’ve been following our adventures for a while and have always wondered what it’s really like to work at IBM Hursley, now may be your chance to find out. IBM Hursley is hiring.

One of the web projects Rob and I are working on at the moment has some internationalisation requirements that are pretty key to its success. The standard user-application interactions aren’t that problematic, there’s some things to think about encoding/storage wise, but it’s a well understood area.

The tricky bit is that URLs are [...]

Regina Spektor, SL connections this is getting spooky now.

The CMO website “the resource for the marketing executive” gets a cut down future shock article that seems to be nealry eberything we do in Hursley including our Second Life work