Tuesday, 31 January, 2006

Links 31/1/06

Ah, payday at last. December’s pay came before Christmas – this has been one hell of a long month. Blogs versus the NY Times in Google Graham Parsnip relaunched in blog form Jody Digger has started blogging recently The winds…

Readable Permalinks

I have now converted this site’s permalinks to a human readable format. This was one of those things I had thought would be really hard, so I kept putting it off. However, in WordPress 2 it’s really easy! Just go…

Sunday, 29 January, 2006

FeedDemon and del.icio.us

FeedDemon 2 has a cool little icon on each post you read to link to it in your del.icio.us archive. I’ve actually started to use this now for a few things. Here is the RSS feed, if you are interested.…

Scoble loses blog archive

Robert Scoble has an old blog hosted at UserLand, or rather had. It’s now gone. Oh, UserLand, where did my old blogs go? Yikes, the first couple of years of my blog are gone. UserLand took down those blogs. I…

Friday, 27 January, 2006

Links 27/1/06

Ban Comic Sans grou.ps might be interesting, but is suffering from being dug at the moment. Google’s Anti-Spyware Project Flickr provides an RSS feed for comments on your photos – useful enough, as it means you don’t have to log…

News Round Up

Plenty going on this morning – Today kept my attention for the whole 2 hour journey… Blair apology to Soham parents Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised to the parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman for comments…

Thursday, 26 January, 2006

Links 26/1/06

GPLv4 – just about funny, but even for geek hunour it’s borderline Barwick plans England coach talks – my choice: Guus Hiddinck. The thought that the likes of Curbishley, Allardyce or – God help us – Steve McClaren might get…

Stuff from MJR

Couple of interesting points from MJR: Annoying blog comment misfeatures: letter images Just tried to leave a comment on Sasquach wears a yellow hat at blogger.com – it has one of those annoying “type the letters from the distorted image”…