Month February 2005

A Few Changes

I have made a few changes to the blog layout, all on the strip down the right hand side. Most noticable is the list of recent links from the Link Blog, which is created using FeedRoll. Not entirely happy with…

Blogger Cancels Comments

Stephen Pollard, a UK based political journalist and quite regular blogger, has sadly been forced to remove the comments facility on his blog: I’m afraid I have had to disable all comments from now on. I do not have the…

UK gets official virus alert site

IT Safe is a new site created by the UK government to keep the populace updated with IT security news. The BBC report is pretty thorough: A rapid alerting service that tells home computer users about serious internet security problems…

What’s in a Name?

Robert Scoble posts over on The Red Couch blog about the name of the blog just started by the publisher of his and Shel Israel’s book. …our publisher, Joe Wikert has started a blog. Shel linked to it the other…

Don’t Blog!

Great link from Ken Leebow’s Blogging About Incredible Blogs, er, blog. It’s called Don’t Blog, and is very amusing. Like this: Bloggers abandon their families as they compulsively blog. One result: “blog widows.” Common activities: Apologizing to friends for all…

Blogging and Search Poll Results

I have just posted to the Link Blog about the results of a poll run by Phil Bradley, which contained some quite revealing, and surprising, results. Well worth checking out.

Richard Grimes on .NET

Good in depth article here. Link from OS News. I started using .NET when it was in technical preview at the beginning of 2000; at that time it was called COM+2 and the main language was something called Cool. The…

Blogging as a Career?

Jason Kottke has given up his job and is going to live off the proceeds of his blog. I’ve been self-publishing on the web for almost 10 years now, first with a little site on my school’s web server, then…

The Google Toolbar Excitement

The BBC just got round to commenting on the Google Toolbar 3 upset, so maybe I ought to quickly post a summation of what’s happening. Search engine firm Google has released a trial tool which is concerning some net users…