An online notebook
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 you can back up your bookmarks by saving them to a HTML file. This is … Keep reading
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 – unveiled its latest journalistic enterprise, Richard Bangs Adventures. The five-part multimedia package is produced by … Keep reading
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 copyright so not all of it is available. Plenty of other classics are there in … Keep reading
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 the idea is that the quality of what you write isn’t all that important. It’s … Keep reading