Goodbye Facebook? Yes, I'm leaving, it was good to know you but I'm moving on. I'm tired of the constant changes. I have the fee...

If you use or need an office suite, it's worth considering LibreOffice. There are a number of reasons for this and some of them may surp...

Chromebook? What's that ?!! It's Google's plan to replace operating systems with a device that does nothing but browse the web. ...

Most businesses and other large organisations (government, church, military, education, medical) are based on a hierarchical command and con...

Now here is a very strange thing. It seems that the USA considers Canada to be guilty of a sort of intellectual property theft, or if not ex...

At the House2House Conference in Dallas in September, John White demonstrated Church of Two (CO2). We all had a chance to try an aspect of...

Tim Berners-Lee has done it again. This time it's not about hyperlinked text but about queryable data . In many ways this can be seen ...

I had an invitation from Google to join their Wave preview, and very nice it is too. I invited the limited number of friends I'm allowe...

Spyros Heniadis, writing on his blog about Facebook and Twitter , makes some very good points as he compares and contrasts the value these t...

Did you know that your connection to the internet is dying on its feet? Honestly, it really is! And the consequences are simply horrendous. ...

Stowe Boyd is a computing/internet/techie guru. He's the kind of guy who tweets from conference sessions every few seconds and he's ...

Wolfram Alpha is about to hit the streets (or at any rate, a computer screen near you). Created by Stephen Wolfram and his company, Wolfram ...

The heavily corroded remains of an intricate and strange looking mechanism were found in 1901 in a Mediterranean shipwreck. Sixty years late...

You are in a remote African village, in the middle of Antarctica, on a small Scottish island miles from the nearest town. You have no mains ...

There are too many social networking sites out there, each one different, many with interesting content. Each one requires me to enter my pr...

It's really good to know you're here, reading the Scilla Blog - thanks for dropping by. Maybe you read many blogs, maybe you read on...

MIT stands for 'Massachusetts Institute of Technology', right? That's widely known. But what does Simile stand for? If you don&#...

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A robotic snake ? Oh yes, and it's a pretty clever design too. Each segment has it's own built-in logic, the segments communicate an...