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Rick’s Blog
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…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Saturday, 5 November, 2005
‘Good Stuff’
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…
Links 5/11/05
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,…
The problem with MyPimp, Bookmarking update
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…
Friday, 4 November, 2005
Links 4/11/05
Meebo: aweb based multi-service IM tool Kiko: AJAX based online calender Using MediaWiki to Build a “normal” Website
Bookmarking
On the recent discussion about browsers on Palimpsest, talk turned eventually to bookmarks, as one member had recently had a problem with Firefox deleting them all. Not sure how that happened, but it is a useful reminder that in Firefox…
Time for the web pioneers to pick sides
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 –…
Google Print, Firefox, Google Portal
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…
Wednesday, 2 November, 2005
Links 2/11/05
New Google Desktop Blog Guardian Technology: Microsoft: 1995 redux?
NaNoWriMoSest
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…