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Eponym is a new hosted blog service, and a direct competitor with Blogger. It’s nice and easy to use, and it’s really quick to set up a new blog – like I did (check out that nice Slashdot-esque theme). My one…

As spotted by Google Blogoscoped, this is from a CSS comment on Microsoft’s website: /* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */ * html .StupidIEMarginHack { margin-right: 1px; }

According to the BBC: More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows. Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.…

Daveybot provides a great round up of his Firefox set-up. Have pinched a few of those extensions for myself. [tags]firefox, extensions[/tags]

Apparently the blog run by David Miliband, the UK government’s “Minister of Communities and Local Government”, costs the taxpayer £6,000 – whether that was a one off payment or an ongoing annual fee it doesn’t say. Clearly the government’s ability…

Nick Bradbury has announced the release of the final version of FeedDemon 2. It is such a great piece of software – I am hoping that when my new PC arrives, there will be a Linux equivalent that is as…

Akismet caught its first attempt at comment spam today – the first spam I have had on this blog since it was set up. Nice to see it working so well – and I guess it means that I must…

Just had news that my new desktop PC is on its way and will be here on Monday. Woot! Then I can get cracking with installing Ubuntu onto it… perhaps a few days off to get it sorted would be…

There is a bit of a buzz around ajaxWrite, a new Web2.0 word processor, like Writely. Much of the buzz is around the fact that the guy reponsible for it is Michael Robertson who was previously behind Linspire, the user…

Well, starting up a new blog has certainly made it clear to me the steps that are needed to try and get things settled and moving quickly. 1. Install WordPress. Ok, so I am a WordPress guy, and most of…

One of the recommended actions for any blogger to take is to tag their posts, inserting appropriate links at the end of the post to a service like Technorati, say, which might be of use to a reader and will…

Thanks to Neville Hobson for pointing out the Subscribe to Comments 2.0 plug-in which allows readers to click a tickbox to receive email notifications of when replies are made to comments they have posted. A great little WordPress plug-in.

Kiko is another online calendar service. It’s filled with lots of lovely little AJAXy tricks and generally looks lovely. One of the cool features include having a text box which allows you to quickly add appointments using a human readable syntax,…