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don’t like DRM? Say so today!

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Today, October 3, is the international day against DRM.
If you’ve ever got annoyed that you cannot copy your CD to your PC (tick), or miffed that you cannot take a backup of your daughter’s favourite DVD (tick), or wanted to store that same DVD on your computer so she does not have to sit through […]

quote of the week

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing has unearthed a great quote from our company’s namesake: Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Isambard was commenting in reaction to a move at the time to establish regulations for bridge design:

In other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvements of tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices […]

secure your combination laptop lock

Monday, December 5th, 2005

A word to the wise….
When on client sites we use laptop cable locks to secure our precious Powerbooks. And having got sick of always losing keys we’ve for the most part all moved to combination lock versions instead of keyed versions. If you use such a lock read on.
When going home what do […]

welcome to the new site

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Welcome (back) everyone. After dipping our toes in the world of blogs for recent clients, we’ve finally taken the plunge ourselves. Not sure what the etiquette is for such moves but probably worth explaining briefly why we’ve moved from a regular “static” site to something a little more fluid.
For a long time now […]