Monthly Archives: April 2006

Design For Library Built From Fuselages

Posted on 24 April 2006 by

Via boing boing comes this impressive design for a library built out of decommissioned aircraft fuselages: Over 200 Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages are stacked in a north-south slant in relation to sun exposure for energy efficiency. Two shifts in … Continue reading →

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Announcing the Talis Community Licence

Posted on 21 April 2006 by

Today I published the first public draft of the Talis Community Licence which is going to play a key role in our technology platform. It gives users and contributors of all kinds of platform data some fundamental rights with one … Continue reading →

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WordPress Update

Posted on 16 April 2006 by

I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.0.2 so there will be some disruption especially since I’m also moving my blog from internetalchemy.org to iandavis.com/blog. Please update your bookmarks if you can. update: having trouble restoring the tag functionality at the moment.

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The XHR Party

Posted on 12 April 2006 by

I’ve seen a few comments on the XMLHttpRequest working draft that we published along the lines of “Microsoft not invited” which are quite surprising to me. Perhaps the people writing these posts aren’t familiar with the W3C process which allows … Continue reading →

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Placebo in Birmingham

Posted on 11 April 2006 by

I went to see Placebo play at the Birmingham Academy on Sunday night which gave me the chance to play with our new camera: It was a good show, although not as good as some others on this tour according … Continue reading →

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