Month October 2005

A Busy Weekend!

We have done loads this weekend. I was taken over with a real desire to get out into the fresh air, and fortunately we have tonnes of it around here. Here’s some photos of the places we went – more…

CSS and Standards

I have always been a self-taught bodge job type of web designer, and nothing I have ever designed has passed the w3c validator test. So, I decided recently, just as a technical exercise, to try and create a site which…

MyPimp

MyPimp is an online personal information manager, using the latest flashy ajax technology that many of the Web 2.0 apps are using, like Writely, for example. Interestingly, when using it with IE, a big message in a red box appears…

Google Mail

Saw a strange thing on logging in to Gmail this morning: And here’s the explaination: We have been involved in a dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK. Another company has claimed rights to the Gmail name. We have…

Google Reader

Reader is the new RSS aggregator from Google. And I am rather sorry to say that it is rubbish. It uses a lot of the java technology that works so well on Gmail, and alright on the personalised home page.…

Writely

John Naughton links to Writely, an online word processor. This is the sort of thing I have discussed earlier, that Google could provide after their link up with Sun, using the OpenOffice.org applications as a base. This might be useful…

Scoble is Switching

Über-blogger Robert Scoble is switching his blog from Typepad to WordPress. The new site is here. Note to self: subscribe to new feeds… He has chosen the Connections theme, which is the one I use here as a base template.

Google / Sun Announcement

So, the announcement has been made and it is kinda vague at the moment. Today, Sun creates yet another important relationship to add to our growing momentum. In an all-star alliance announced today, Sun and Google have begun a strategic…

Weird or What?

Now this is a strange one: looks like someone has started up a blog pretending to be me! And sadly, it isn’t very flattering. Now who would do such a thing? I guess the best thing I can do…

More photos

From recent trips to Llangollen, to see and ride on the steam train: And to see the sea at Aberystwyth: If you look at the titles I give photos on Flickr, you might notice that just recently I have been…