Recent Writing

I've been playing around with CouchDB for a few nights, inspired by the work of Stuart Langridge and others at Ubuntu, and also J Chris Anderson.

I've been mulling over whether or not this is blog worthy. Probably not, but it is geek related.

If you've never had to run Linux under HyperV you'll know that it runs, although it could be better. You'll also be aware that Microsoft supply drivers via connect, in a binary state with official support for only a few distros.

My feed reader just picked up a new article over at ISC about a new 0-day for Linux. You should go and read it now, because it's fairly different from most other exploits and comes from fairly innocuous looking code.

I use my work Macbook Pro for personal stuff as well, and quite frankly if you don't want kids in the future, it's the laptop to use on your lap. And deity forbid that you want to use a demanding program; you might as well forget about using your legs for a week afterwards. To combat …