I have to post about this, if only so I remember they exist in a month or so. The Redwood Virtual Server company provides user-mode Linux accounts for around £6 a month – full root access, fast Internet connection and the freedom to do almost whatever you like. I want one of these so I can: mirror …

I’ve been using the very good AMSN instant messenger client to chat to my family and friends overseas, mostly because it’s the only open source client I could find that lets me use the webcam sharing features. This seems to work quite well, even on my aging Toshiba laptop and over an 802.11b wifi …

I relaunched glennji.com last night, which with Drupal was as easy as changing a setting from “offline” to “online”. Today I’ve tweaked the theme (with the theme_editor module, since I don’t have FTP access from work) to rectify a couple of XHTML validation errors and warnings — and I wouldn’t have …

I bought a Nokia 770 web-tablet a few months back, and absolutely love it — it’s newspaper, TV-guide, SSH client, instant messenger, VOIP handset, daily planner and notepad. I tend to take it everywhere, but it is probably most useful in the lounge room in that it removes the need for a precariously …

My “floating head” hackergotchi (yep, I still haven’t found any real art to upload).

Now that Java has been properly open-sourced it has become a viable platform for open source development. Any apps or utilities I get around to making will go here. Sure, it’s a bit empty now, I know.