Techiedog-blog

Thanks to everyone for being such an engaging audience last night - it was a pleasure to talk to you all. If any one has any questions or wants to argue against anything I said feel free to email me or post a comment here. You won't offend me by disagreeing with anything I said, I welcome debate and am not too proud to surrender to a well reasoned argument - debate helps us all understand better. As always with these things there are points I realize I should have made and other things I realize I should have expanded upon but time is always such a limited commodity. If any one can make it to the next Leeds open coffee we can talk further. Thanks for some really interesting questions and conversations after the presentation. As promised, the presentation (as a PDF) can be download from here : Also, below is the reading list I recommend and also the list of Web 2.0 apps that are worth taking a look at to see if they can help you in your business. If you find any others you like, pl...

For a few years now one of my research domains has concerned the Future of Home Networking . My interest in this area of technology was I guess, initially sparked as a geeky 10 year old hacking away at my ZX81 with an imagination fuelled by Lucas , Roddenbury et al. So when I was asked to deliver a keynote at last week’s inaugural Wireless Grids Research Consortium Meeting on the topic of visions for the use of Grids in the home environment, starting with the mental exercise of deconstructing the Star Trek ship's computer seemed only too natural. From HAL to the USSS Enterprise and beyond, the intelligent Star Ship Computer has become a cliché staple of Science Fiction writing and film. Be the question ‘Computer, what deck is Mr Spok currently on?’ or ‘How long before that planet explodes?’ the Star Ship computer has the answer. However the computer doesn’t ‘know’ all the answers, it simply ‘understands’ the question, ‘knows’ where to find the information required to present a...