At our office, I thought it’d be a nice challenge to run a computer Go tournament - individuals could submit their computer Go program, and the best program’s author gets a big prize and gets to explain how he did it (sorry, only male hackers around so far). Apart from a bit of an exercise […]

One of the podcasts I subscribe to is The Agile Toolkit by Bob Payne. It mostly consists of him interviewing interesting people at conferences, and invariably I pick up interesting snippets of thought and/or knowledge.
Last weeks’ podcast contains a presentation by Pollyana Pixton, Veep of the Agile Project Leadership Network. She shares some great […]

I never heard about StumbleUpon before, but with its addition to the eBay family, I had to try it out. I strongly advice you not to do so for reasons that will become clear very soon .
StumbleUpon is a sort of social bookmarking site - we’ve seen that with del.icio.us, digg, etcetera. However, […]

My bookshelves are filling up, so I had the choice to either add another Ikea Billy or off-load some books. When talking with a colleague about a shared hobby, geocaching, he mentioned the concept of bookcrossing.
What a great way to get rid off the books that you liked but are likely never to read […]

The guys behind The Pirate Bay got around to making a movie of their own, called Steal this Film! (download it with your favorite BitTorrent client from here, if you don’t have a BT client installed check out Azureus). If you don’t know TPB, it is one of the world’s major BitTorrent indexing and tracking […]

SellaBand is a new (Dutch) site to help bands make money. The idea is simple: a band promotes itself on the site, and tries to get 5000 people to bet $10 on the band’s success (or one to bet $50,000, whatever). With that money, SellaBand will provide a producer and studio time so the band […]

By way of the Scrum mailing list, Cambrian House is a start-up that looks like a promising way to do business. It is a bit like previous sites that tried to invoke the Net community to do work, but this one might actually turn out to be a good idea.
Basically, what you can do is […]

The Register shows yet another example of university administrators striving to be politically correct (in this case revoking someone’s web access after he posted a discussion on why vegetarianism is misguided), ignoring centuries of very good reasons why universities must be places where there is freedom of speech and debate. I’d say “fire them”, but […]

Read on The Register, this gem on eBay. I just wonder for how many good old Pound Sterling this guy can flog an old car key and some assorted junk. As I’m writing this, the top bid is 41 quid…
Go read it, you’ll have a good laugh.

Michael Robertson, of MP3.com and LindowsLinspire fame, keeps looking around for the Next Big Thing™.
This time, he thinks he has found it in ajaxWrite, the first of a suite of AJAX-based web applications. As the name says, ajaxWrite is a word processor. Simple, but functional so it might be enough for a large number […]