Darren and Roo show off Second Life at an internal conference. Food and speakers: good. Beds: too short.

An interesting group dynamic in the Wimbledon bunker

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 been running [...]

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 ASCII only. [...]