Wednesday, 25 January, 2006

More censorship news…

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran blocks BBC Persian website The Iranian authorities have started to block the BBC’s Persian language internet site, for the first time. The BBC says the level of traffic to the site…

Monday, 23 January, 2006

The Global Id

Great article on Google by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books: Google is the only multi-billion-dollar company in the world that is also a spelling mistake. Back in the palaeolithic era (that’s the palaeolithic era in the internet…

Sunday, 22 January, 2006

AVG Free / Spybot S&D

A quick note for anyone who uses the Grisoft AVG Free anti-virus package. I tried to run an update this evening which kept failing. I then downloaded the programme and installed it again, and it now works fine. There was…

Quietness

Things have been pretty quiet over here recently. I guess I have just been concentrating on other things. First up, I have started to host the Impnet forums – a site for fans of Lincoln City Football Club. This has…

Tuesday, 17 January, 2006

Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams, along with Nick Cave, is just about the only musician whose new releases I bother with these days. I know what I like, alright?! Anyway, here’s a quick round-up of his solo career. I don’t know a lot…

Saturday, 14 January, 2006

Lake Vyrnwy Mosaic

Today we visited Lake Vyrnwy. Around the lake are a load of different trails to walk on, one of which leads to an area full of slightly mental wooden sculptures.See the flickr set for them in their proper sizes. Worth…

Thursday, 12 January, 2006

2005 in Cities

My list is depressingly parochial, and short: Norwich  Peterborough London Cambridge Chester Amsterdam York Bristol Birmingham And in the rough order than I visited them. Hopefully, others on Palimpsest will have added their’s soon.