http://z303.org Just my randomness Thu, 15 May 2008 20:51:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So another brain dump about startups in various place. Back in 2001 I had an interview in Helsinki for Bitboys. In the end I did not take the job but it did give an interesting look inside the local start up scene when we went out for drinks in the ... http://z303.org/2008/05/helsinki-startups/ Just is mostly just a brain dump of some extra bits and bob that I thought of after a big thread about startups in Bristol and the UK this afternoon. In a lot of way the Uk seems to be better at being the best in a niche not in ... http://z303.org/2008/05/more-on-startups-in-uk-and-bristol/ This is just an archived version of a thread on twitter a few people had about startups in the UK and Bristol in particular. This mostly is so I have an easy to link to version for a braindump of some more links and thought on the subject. johnbradford: Giant Were-Rabbit ... http://z303.org/2008/05/bristol-and-startups/ I was getting this on my server, so I did what anyone would do and googled it. So to hopefully stop other searching for a solution, when moving from one authentication module to another they changed how spaces in passwords were handled, whatever the new modules is does not like them, ... http://z303.org/2008/03/pop3d-authentication-error-inputoutput-error/ As twittered back in December, I got a new PC, so my mother got my old system, which left her old system spare. It seems so simple, get a big hard drive and rip all my CDs, at last, I mean its not like its was a 286. Its a 900MHz ... http://z303.org/2008/03/server-project/ via Spyblog, NO2ID are calling in their pledges from 2005. I just did mine. A lots has happened since then, the costs have risen, the one database has become a merged view of the existing data, and no reason has been given, again you can see all the good work ... http://z303.org/2007/11/no2id-pledge/ They have released a report of what they have done so far and where all the money came from and went. Here's two of the founders take on things, Cory Doctorow and Danny O'Brien and Becky Hogge's overview if you don't want to read the full report. If you like what ... http://z303.org/2007/11/open-rights-group-is-two-today/ Just uploading a few new photos from the journey back to Bristol and well the upload page had completely changed from last night. New flickr upload page I must say the new version is much better, at least you can see how far it got with each file, and you have an ... http://z303.org/2007/11/new-flickr-upload-page/ more videos here. http://z303.org/2007/10/happy-halloween/ So Friday was tv-links.co.uk being shut down (Jack Schofield's and the Open Right Group comments), now today I find out about Oink, which was the first I'd heard about that site (Points West Look North report on YouTube (via:waxy) and DJ Rupture comments (also via:waxy)). Both were international operations with people ... http://z303.org/2007/10/p2p-crackdown/