MJR thinks of an explanation for the proliferation of cup upsets over the last week: England’s football fans had the pleasure of random football scores last weekend: the FA Cup. Why is there so much expectation of upsets? I think…

…right now. This is a seriously temporary list! 1. Gmail – never have I stuck with an email system or even address for so long. Quick, easy to use, almost perfect. 2. Newsgator – you could possibly substitute this with…

Which I left in drafts until now… Knifing Charles: Was this Daisy McAndrew’s First Scoop? Sniping from the sidelines at Google Pack

It’s a Saturday, so not a lot going on, despite the Google announcements. Google Pack – hasn’t everyone already got this stuff? Politics: Charles Kennedy resigns at last (aside from whether he should have done so, whether now or months…

Books and Desk Originally uploaded by theclosedcircle.

This one is better I think: more pics at a smaller size. A tip for when pasting in HTML from flickr into WordPress 2. the editor is supposed to pick up HTML and work it out for you, but for…

  Created using the Flickr toys at Flagrant Disregard.

Much planning is being done over at Palimpsest for the second Big Day Out, which we have all been looking forward to after the success of last year’s. It seems like a few new Palimpers will be coming along, which…

My local council has a forum which no one uses. Well, I thought I would give it a go, largely because I was so annoyed at how long it took me to find out my local councillors’ names and contact…

Been browsing through Flickr and found this beauty from Chillicheese: Palimper and blogger. I have recently become a ‘pro’ member of flickr, largely so that I can dump loads of family photos for distant family members to see, so they are…

The first of the New Year. Quentin likes Protopage a lot. Good. I think it is a brilliant service. Palimpsest discusses resolutions. I need to focus more. I have updated my book page for 2006. I have had 5 emails…

Just logged into my web-based RSS aggregator (I am using Newsgator these days) to find hundreds of posts all wishing me a happy new year. Great, thanks everyone. I must be in  a bad mood today. Still, if people just…

The Rock is a disused limestone quarry which overlooks the village, now a nature reserve. A brilliant place for rambling walks. Loads more photos on my Flickr page.

Guy Kawasaki writes about  his 10/20/30 Rule of  Powerpoint: It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

Just finished The Consolations of Philosophy, and while it took me a while to read a 250-odd page paperback, it was enjoyable stuff throughout. De Botton picks 6 philosophers and 6 predicaments, one for each philosopher to console us. It’s…

The WordPress blog has finally announced the release of version 2.0, or ‘Duke’. The post presents a nice list of new features for users: Completely Redesigned Backend — The first thing you’ll notice when you login to your blog is…