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Theme disaster
Due to a total cock-up on the theme for this blog, I have had to revert it back to the original Beeblebrox one. Will have my changes back in place sometime tomorrow, hopefully!
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Wednesday, 21 December, 2005
Links 21/12/05
Google Modules – add functionality to your personalised Google home page Steve Rubel writes about the Performancing FireFox extension – which from “any page in your browser, just right click and special blog publishing frame opens. Fill it out, add…
Japan ‘groper’ dies after beating
From BBC News: A Japanese man has died after being tackled by fellow train passengers who believed he had molested a woman during the morning rush hour. The man fled the train at a station in the city of Osaka…
WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate
Exciting (well, for the likes of me it is…) announcent on the WordPress development blog: The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate.…
Monday, 19 December, 2005
MyHeritage.com
My Heritage is currently in beta – it’s going to be some sort of genealogy website or something – but it does have this face recognition thing on it, where you upload a photo of your face, and it tells…
Links 19/12/05
Uncyclopedia – a pretty funny Wikipedia spoof Goal Mouths is now live BBC Technology: What is it with Wikipedia? Guardian Technology on Yahoo!
Sunday, 18 December, 2005
Not moving
Moving URLs is a stupid idea. What was I thinking of? It’d be crazy to just abandon all the existing links out there and would take ages to sort everything out. Instead, I’m just going to change the name of…
Friday, 16 December, 2005
Moving…
I am going to ignore my own advice and move this blog’s URL next week. The new address will be Obviously I will keep the two running side by side for a day or two to ensure everything has…
Thursday, 15 December, 2005
Living without the Desktop
Here is an article I have written and submitted to the now active-again Living Without Microsoft website, run by John Naughton and Quentin Stafford-Fraser. You would have thought that working without desktop applications would be pretty tricky. But there are…
Monday, 12 December, 2005
PAD
The Palimpsest Authors Directory is up and running, and the slog is now to get some content in there. Most of it is being cut and pasted from Wikipedia, which is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. This means…