Apologies for the disruption in service. Little’un has been in hospital for a while and all my spare time is spent with him and my better half. Hopefully they will be home and normal service resumed later this week.

I have started a visual book list. Looks quite nice, though the numbers of unfinished books worries me slightly. Will get round to writing little reviews at some point for each one.

Chain Reading. It’s like a social booklist keeping thing. Kind of. You select the book you are reading, and have read, and will read. Recommend them to people. Maybe they will recommend some to you. Fairly interesting. Of course, some…

Glypho appears to be a site offering collective authorship. It looks quite interesting, but at a guess I would say the quality of writing is probaby variable…

Horrible! From Guardian Technology: “Prosecutors claim a Mac specialist on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: “neck snap break” and “hold” before she was killed. Robert Petrick, who is defending…

From Guido Fawkes’ blog.

I have a job interview on Friday, for a job in Scrutiny at Chester City Council. Am quite confident and am looking forward to the idea of getting back into Scrutiny. Browsing the Council’s website, it would appear that some…

Great post from John Naughton. The United Nations have released a Word file which, in the meta data and changes tracking, reveals some pretty embarassing edits… When will people learn to stop using MS file formats to distribute material?

With enough eyeballs, all bugs are invisible Pitiful spectacle of an old DOS trying to do new tricks

Had a jolly time at the bonfire and fireworks party last night. I guess a relevant link to push here would be Guy Fawkes’ blog – a great one for UK parliamentary rumour and gossip.

Rick Green is blogging again after a brief hiatus, and it’s well worth heading over there. He doesn’t just focus on one issue, but a whole range of them – almost all of which are new to me. It’s a…

I have started a new category, called Good Stuff. It’s basically just a tag I can apply to longer posts that I take a bit longer over than normal. I’m going to try and do one a week from now…

Woman auctions home – and herself BBC: Firefox share 11.5% History on his side: An interview with Robert Conquest KickRSS: takes multiple feeds and creates one feed for the lot. Could be very useful Phil Bradley’s blog moves to Typepad,…

Have started to use MyPimp as I need a calendar and it makes sense to have one online. The contacts bit might be useful too. However, there is a big problem with it at the moment and that is that…

Meebo: aweb based multi-service IM tool Kiko: AJAX based online calender Using MediaWiki to Build a “normal” Website

From today’s Guardian: Time for the web pioneers to pick sides. Yahoo has been sending men up mountains. Last week, the portal – which claims to be the world’s biggest, with a user base of more than 345 million –…

A day off work today. A few quick things before I get on. Maybe more later… Google Print is online. Had a quick play, looking for H.G. Wells’ The First Men on the Moon. Sadly that text is still under…

New Google Desktop Blog Guardian Technology: Microsoft: 1995 redux?

Everyone has heard of NaNoWriMo, the web-organised novel writing sprint, which involves writing 50,000 words to get a novel finished during the month of November. It sounds like madness, and it is. What’s the point of it? Well, part of…