In response to my legions of demanding readers… The new job is going pretty well! I work in a team of about 10 people, all of whom are jolly friendly. Essentially the team pimps itself around the Council doing bits…

Yesterday was the Big Day Out for members of Palimpsest, the arts discussion site I help maintain. It was also my birthday, and what a great way to spend it. Whilst in the pub I discussed blogging for a short…

As a sweetener for members of Palimpsest who made a donation towards the hosting this year, I offered them an @palimpsest email address. This got me thinking about what other services could be offered to those who might be interested.…

WordPress 1.5.1 has been released. Better get upgraded…

BlogJetThis! Extension for FireFox 0.4 James Avery has created a FireFox extension that allows you to select text in FireFox and then blog about it using BlogJet. Great work James! If you visit the above link, you’ll see a few…

From the Guardian Online blog: In praise of Amiga Apropos of very little, I had a bit of a retro memory flashback the other day (actually it was when I dug out an old copy of Lemmings) and started thinking…

Neville Hobson writes: Three lessons about evangelism: Always consider another’s point of view – and listen to that point of view no matter how anxious you are to get across your own point of view Be passionate but consider how you…

US based celebrity blog thing is now up and running, as reported by Dan Gillmor: The Huffington Post has launched, and it’s part-Drudge (though from a different perspective), part blog of blogs. It’s obviously version 1.0, which means you should…

Just gotten round to filling in the FTP details on BlogJet, which means that if I have a photo on my PC, BlogJet will upload it for me in a specified directory on the web server, when I get round…

Doc Searles on blogs What is a blog? The oft-cited Doc Searles shares his thoughts in a PowerPoint from the “Les Blogs” conference in Paris. Or, if you’d like the html version … Try slide 17 for the nub of…

From Scoble: Google moves its blog to Blogger, adds blogroll Yeah, TDavid, it is an honor to be blogrolled on Google’s blog. Google recently moved its blog over to Blogger. So that’s why my previous attempts to subscribe to this…

History of the Graphical User Interface Ars Technica has a great history of the GUI that just came online. I was one of those “Xerox invented it, Apple stole it, Microsoft stole that” kinds of people. It’s great to realize…

Well, I am leaving Scrutiny after nearly a year and have a new job as a Business Analyst at another authority. Just a week to go – my first day is 16 May. What’s it all about? Well, project management…

Does anyone know how I can insert trackbacks to posts I am quoting or writing about whilst within BlogJet? At the moment I am having to edit posts while online to add them in, which kind of defeats the object…

8 Secrets of the New Super Blogs from Vaspers the Grate 8 Secrets of the New Super Blogs:Blog Revelations from Otherwhere (1.) Blogs will be interesting…or die. (2.) Blogs will be unusual, abnormal, unique…or die. (3.) Blogs will be practical,…

An article by Dan Gillmor: Operating Systems and Recent History Early last week, Bill Gates demonstrated Microsoft’s next Windows desktop computer operating system at a conference for manufacturers of computer hardware. Later in the week Apple started selling its latest…

Interesting article on Michael Howard’s signal of his intention to resign as leader of the Tories on the BBC. The last thing the Tories want is another instant resignation similar to William Hague’s the day after the 2001 election defeat.…

Blunkett returns in new Cabinet, according to the BBC: David Blunkett has returned to the Cabinet as work and pensions secretary as Tony Blair reshuffles his top team. Patricia Hewitt has been appointed health secretary – with John Reid moving…

Am working on a large list of links of pages I regularly visit. At the moment it is very incomplete, so have temporarily password protected it.

Backpack is a genuinely brilliant site. It is essentially an online personal information manager, giving you the ability to maintain an online diary or keep todo lists, posts photos and all sorts.   Steve Rubel explains it far better than…