About a week after I wrote about the future of DRM and cited Spotify as an example they made an announcement about some changes they are making. The changes will affect users of the free service. The announcement has the full details but in short, You get a six months grace period, after that. Listening
Month: April 2011
Good Luck Bill English
I saw this blog post when I got into the office this morning announcing big changes for Bill English. He’s changing his role at MindSharp so that his day to day role is more focussed on the business side of things than the technical. His blog post fully explains why but in short he wants
Book Review – When Sysadmins Ruled The World
I guess this doesn’t technically count as a book as it’s actually a short story…but I enjoyed it so much I wanted to write about it anyway! We’ve all heard about nuclear bunkers and it’s been written about in fiction and movies about how important world figures would disappear into these bunkers in the event
Book Review – Beautiful Red
Based on my past experience with Little Brother this was another Creative Commons book I managed to pick up for my Kindle. This book actually needs to be thought about in two parts. The idea behind it and the story that goes with it. So what’s the idea? Think about how the Internet is entrenched
Making money by giving stuff away
One of my new favourite authors is Cory Doctorow. His book Little Brother was the first I read on my Kindle and caught my eye because it was available under a Creative Commons License. I’m working my way through the rest of the books Cory has written but one thing I look forward to with
Retro Computer Museum–May 2011
If you’re into video games you should really think about getting tickets for the Retro Computer Museum Weekend in Coalville just outside of Leicester. It’s on the 7th & 8th of May and I can highly recommend it. Last year when it was a single day event Richard Tubb and I went and had a