Our company, Auctomatic, has been acquired by Live Current Media. The story has appeared in a few news outlets, including The Irish Times, the BBC, and VentureBeat, which has an interview with Harjeet.
I’ll post some longer reflections later; sleep beckons right now!
I recently switched from Meteor to Vodafone when in Ireland because Vodafone’s data rate (50MB for €1) is 3,000 times cheaper than Meteor’s (6c/KB).
Vodafone don’t have an EDGE network, but they do support GPRS—which works with the iPhone, despite appearances (GPRS coverage is indicated by an odd-looking blank square beside the carrier logo).
To get it to work, I edited my SystemPreferences plist file (/var/preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist) to contain the Vodafone APN details and a pointer to a PAC file describing the Vodafone proxy server (here’s the relevant section), and then created a simple proxy.pac in /var/root.
The Vodafone proxy doesn’t seem to allow much bar web traffic, but it’s enough for basic use on the move.
TeTeX isn’t maintained any more, but I’ve written a fair few scripts over the years that depend on it, and so I’ve yet to switch over to something like MacTeX or TeX Live.
TeTeX 3.0 doesn’t build out-of-the-box on Leopard. In case it’s useful to anyone, here is the patch I hacked together to get it to do so.
The Economist has a great summary of the tension in the Wikipedia community around the correct threshold for article inclusion.
My brother, John, is an admin, and so I’ve gradually been made aware of the kind of disputes that the article alludes to. (Does the “Traditional Irish Breakfast” deserve its own article, in addition to that about the “Traditional English Breakfast”? John spent many hours resolving such questions.)
It’s cool to see an outlet like The Economist give such accurate coverage of an issue that actually is pretty important (the battle for overall policy in arguably the largest collaborative project yet undertaken by humanity), but full of such arcane technical detail that very few outside the web community have much understanding of it.
If you’re interested in reading more, Andrew Lih (currently working on a book about Wikipedia) has a blog full of lucid posts on Wikipedia policy.