It is worth mentioning, with the current fuss over the Autonomy buy-out, that HP has a relatively unhappy history with regard to its acquisitions… Going back to the 80s, HP bought out a Unix workstation rival – Apollo – that soon vanished without trace, and led to one of the HP co-founders – Dave Packard – briefly … Continue reading →
After all the hype about ‘Everything Everywhere’ (a brand ripe for parody, if ever there was one) and their announcement of tentative ”4G” services in (parts of) the UK, there have been several articles commenting on the perils of early-adopters (and there are many). One of the more concise and erudite dissections is in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/26/4g_no_thx_no2/ … Continue reading →
One of the good things about open technology is that anyone with a modicum of skills can create stuff, and this includes themes – the layout and colours and fonts and positioning of graphical content. I have encountered this in browsers (Firefox) as well as here and now – in WordPress.. The only problem, is that so … Continue reading →