Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

A few Fridays ago I has the misfortune of seeing the Jonathon Ross. It’s hard, but let’s set aside that the show is drivel, so much so that it’s hard to believe it’s on TV at all.
Christopher Eccleston, the then new Doctor Who, guested and looked particularly uncomfortable. It was unclear if this was due […]

I’m a big fan of Banksy. He started in East London and now travels the globe ‘doing art’.
I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, and saw a couple of his stencils. For the first time I realised that he doesn’t have to go to where his art is placed. All that is […]

I’ve just bought an HP/Compaq NC4000 laptop for Sally.
It’s turned out to be the sort of quality machine that I thought it might be. It’s compact, pretty light at 1.6Kg, with a 1.5GHz Intel Pentium-M processor. The 30GB hard disk and 12.1″ TFT colour display are OK, but the memory it arrived with, 256Mb […]

Pictures from Lake Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 2005

Originally uploaded by tv.

I stumbled across this photo today on Flickr, showing a couple of cars parked beside Lake Geneva looking about the most frozen they could be.
My particular favorite are the iciles in the trees behind.
There are others in the […]

I was asked to be lead technical advisor to a TV show, that was originally called IF … Media 2012. Over the last six months of script alterations and shooting the direction has changed, but finally the docu-drama is airing at 11:20pm BBC2.
It’s part of the highly respected BBC’s IF … series and it examines […]

Your blog should be but one face of your personal storage.
Using the Single Text Interface STI mentioned yesterday, you can easily mark content as private … for select groups, individuals, or everyone.
The server stores the entry, assigns security and alerts the relevant recipients. Either by email or ideally directly with the recipients ping server (more […]

Too many interfaces; blog, IM, email.
I want a single interface for text.
Depending where I’m posting to, the interface changes.
I’m not talk about Outlook here, more light and nimble.

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This is too funny. Tax defaulters in southern India are being forced to face the music after city authorities hired drummers to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up.

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[ 11, March 2005; 9:08 am to 12:08 pm. ]

Kropke station, Hannover

Originally uploaded by Simon.

The main rail intersection I pass through on the way to CeBIT is Kropke, a surprisingly bright and spacious station underground. Mini-tile-tasic.

I’m currently at CeBIT, the scale of which I didn’t really grasp, despite being told it was big by many of the journalists that I spoken to about it before leaving.
I thought IBC was a big event, as it is hosted in 11 halls. 11 halls? Pah, that is nothing. CeBIT is 27 halls, scrub […]