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Wikipedia CD

Hadn’t come across this before, but the children’s charity SOS Children’s Villages UK has produced a downloadable .zip of Wikipedia entries they think would be useful to children in terms of subject and quality, that people can distribute via CD.…

Yahoo, Microsoft tie message knot

From the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users. The trial software…

links for 2006-07-10

Allez les Bleus! (tags: football zidane) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Emergent bureaucracy (tags: wiki wikipedia)

links for 2006-07-08

The poet of dialectics Francis Wheen on ‘Das Capital’. First read his views on the book in his autobiography of Marx. (tags: wheen marx) Buying PR9 Links on W3.org (tags: pagerank w3c)

England 0 – 0 Portugal

So, England’s World Cup campaign has come to an end, through the usual medium, the penalty shoot out. A few things came out of the tournament for me: England were nowhere near as bad as their critics have made out…

Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath

Originally posted on Palimpsest: Well, I have now finished two books consecutively for the first time in ages, and at last my Palimplist is making some movement. I think I should thank Patrick McGrath for that. Port Mungo is every…

Google Spreadsheets

After the purchase of Writely giving them onine word processing, it appears that Google will shortly be offering a spreadsheet too. These, with Gmail and Calendar effectively provide a free to use Google Office suite. For home users with a…

links for 2006-06-04

Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress (tags: tutorial howto wordpress) WordPress 2.0.3 (tags: blogging software upgrade wordpress) Go meebo! (tags: web im) Why Are Multi-Writer Weblogs More Popular? (tags: blogging)

Cutting back

I’ve had to have a bit of a review of my online life since I started my new job. I simply haven’t got the time that I used to for administering all the sites I have managed to become involved…

Living Without Microsoft…

…has been given a bit of a face lift. Last week, Quentin and I finally bumped into each other in IM-land and between us upgraded to WordPress 2.02, installed a modified K2 theme, installed all the various plug-ins that make…

Un-Made-Up

Un-Made-Up is a great little blog just started by the journalist and author William Shaw. It features true stories submitted by readers, all under 1,000 words long. Well worth a look.

How to be Good

Yep, I am giving you all a chance to do something that will make you better people. You’d be fools/really unpleasant not to take it! The future Mrs Dave is to take part in Race for Life this year, raising…

links for 2006-04-26

TechToolBlog » 195 Free Online Programming Books – Web Programming focusing on Marketing the world wide web (tags: programming books free ebooks)