http://jamesbarbour.org/blog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:56:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... with some of its friends. Big thanks to Paul. http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/08/20/my-new-macbook-nano/ So please don't expect much for a while. I do have a post half-drafted about civil service blogging - much happening at the moment, including my own 'proper' FCO blog at some point in the coming months. But more of that anon. This time tomorrow I'll be in Denmark. http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/31/off-on-hols/ Barbie in fisnhets n' leather. Could open up a whole new customer base. Tesco causes couple condom catastrophe - The Register. Sure, they get stuff wrong. But what I wouldn't give for a Tesco delivery van right now. Russian billionaire's new yacht - WSJ. I think it looks ... http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/26/links-of-the-week-10/ Writing this on the newly-released WordPress for iPhone app. Seems to work ok, although it's more than a little basic. Can't quite figure out how to enter links, although I'm assuming that www.apple.com will show up as a hyperlink on screen. Preview mode is very good, although doesn't show your ... http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/22/wordpress-for-iphone/ I'm not the only one to have been on tenterhooks for the last week or so following the release of Apple's iPhone 2.0 update. Today, in what I reckon is a pretty impressive timescale, the iPhone Dev Team released their 'Pwnage 2.0' tool - enabling those of us outside ... http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/20/pwning-all-over-the-world/ Along with many, many others, I thoroughly enjoyed the original Washingtonienne blog. So when a new Washingtonienne came along earlier this year, ostensibly with Jessica's blessing, I found myself rather looking forward to a new round of adventures on the Hill. Particularly when she signed off her first ... http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/14/whered-she-go/ It's only been a month since WWDC. Only a month since the hardly-news-really launch of the 3G iPhone and Apple's new 'MobileMe' service. But in that short space of time, the hype has reached fever pitch. The new App Store, according to TUAW, will completely revolutionise, erm, everything. ... http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/11/its-tough-being-a-fanboy/ DML via Theo http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/07/africa-in-perspective/ Swathes of the Brit community in Moscow have been up in arms for the past couple of weeks, following the disappearance of Sky News from the lineup of local cable provider KOCMOC TB (aka Cosmos TV). One of the contributors over at redtape.ru has managed to get to the bottom of ... http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/07/pie-in-the-sky/ ... and then someone drives past your window in a golden Porsche. http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2008/07/05/you-think-youve-seen-it-all/