The Times has an excellent article on university education from a somewhat more sober perspective than usual. I do find it a bit strange that so many people are coming to university with the belief that it's going to get them a job. I know that my Philosophy degree isn't going to help me get employment. That's why I spend my time hacking web projects and open-source bits and pieces, and that's why I'm applying to do Computer Science at graduate level next year. But I'm interested in the subject, and I'm getting a lot out of it. It's hopefully making me a better person. A significant rethink is necessary on the position of the ex-polys. They really do suck. I say that as someone who has been to one for just under a year and left to go to an old university. 

If you missed the excellent Louis Theroux show yesterday, read this article. I'm not sure what my favourite Weird Weekend show was - it's probably a toss-up between the muscle worship episode and the Ann Widdecombe episode. If he's making a come back, he ought to do a show on furries. 

I just launched a new little site called Opiumfield Mobile. It has a tiny little mobile Twitter application (which is a bit half-finished, but will be finished very soon), and a London Tube Status page. I'll be adding other pages that pull data from the 'net and display them in tiny mobile-friendly XHTML pages. 

Moderate Muslims, my arse. 31% of British Muslims aged 16-24 want to kill apostates. If that's moderate, I can't wait for the extremists. 

Les has found an article which notes that the Upgrade version of Vista won't allow you to do a clean install. You better hope that your Vista installation never needs to be reinstalled. Someone at Microsoft dropped the ball. Windows licence does not equal Windows installation. 

The Tom and Ian Show 

I've just put out the first episode of a show I recorded with Ian Forrester. You can download the MP3 here or subscribe to the feed. I've got a cool way of doing show notes which will be arriving soon.

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