The Portable Consultant

Oh, Google… leaving your premium (paying) Google Video customers in the lurch is a big mistake that may tarnish your brand for some time to come. An expiring credit won’t cut it with most of them. It’s also yet another nail in the coffin for DRM. Can you hear the chorus of “I told you [...]

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” -Ghandi “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.” -Arlo Guthrie The Portable Consultant has been silent on recent developments involving Microsoft and Linux. This is not because of lack of interest – I’ve been busy working out [...]

library science, past and present Many, many, moons ago The Portable Consultant was involved in the classification of audio-visual materials for a university library. I recall that the classification scheme in favour at the time was a modified Lamy-Rousseau which attempted to bring uniformity to a library’s A/V collections. One of the issues I had [...]