Dave

Dave

links for 2006-03-13

‘Root’ Password Readable on Ubuntu (tags: ubuntu linux security) Ditching TypePad to Movable Type to WordPress | Performancing Site sanity prevails (tags: wordpress typepad blogging) BlogJet – Blog – Tip: Changing BlogJet This! Template (tags: blogging blogjet) Google Mars (tags:…

K2

K2 seems like a really interesting theme for WordPress. It is still in beta at the moment, but I have installed on World of Dave just to see how it works and looks. I actually really like the feel of…

links for 2006-03-12

The significance of the Writely acquisitiion (tags: writely google naughton) WordPress 2.0.2 Security Release (tags: blogging wordpress) Ditching WordPress for TypePad The act of a madman (tags: wordpress blogging) Why Dont You…Blog? » Computer Magazine Cover Disks (tags: software) Beta…

What I use (at the moment)

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the applications I use on a regular basis. This was obviously on the Windows laptop I am using right now. This is going to change in a major way pretty soon, when I…

The Changes

So, what made me want to change things round? Well, there have been, or are going to be, several changes to the way I am doing things generally, IT-wise. One thing is that I really wanted to move away from…

New sites and feeds

Right, so I have put in place the new blogs. The tech blog, which is what most people will be interested in, is now at and the feed is The ‘personal’ blog is at /worldofdave and the feed…

First past the post

Here’s the first post, taking over from where davebriggs.net left off. Well, some of it. This is where I am going to be doing all of the tech stuff I used to write about – in other words, most of…

The end of an era, kind of…

You may have noticed a complete lack of action on this blog of late. That’s partially because of life getting in the way, but more a case of me planning to move away from it. I am going to be…

links for 2006-02-26

Trading standards and free software (tags: firefox open-source) The Last Rage About FrontPage (tags: frontpage google web_design)

links for 2006-02-25

Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger » Blog Herald doesn’t understand why full-text feeds work (tags: blogging rss)

links for 2006-02-24

Gmail’s Automated Sender Selection (tags: google gmail email) Blogging For Newbies (tags: blogging)

Clough to Forest?

From the Guardian‘s perennially unreliable Rumour Mill: And we’ll usher in the weekend with a long-awaited bit of good news for Nottingham Forest fans after more than a year of Gary route-one Megson: Nigel Clough is rumoured to be tempted…

Two Opinions on Google’s Page Creator

Google’s recent page creator has drawn some conflicting views. I’ll pluck two out here. Scoble is broadly in favour: I see a lot of bloggers saying “so” about Google’s new Web Page Creator. I think bloggers often miss the larger…

Stikipad

Stikipad, which I mentioned in my brief round up of wikis recently, has now made it’s free account have unlimited edits. Thank goodness sanity has prevailed – 5 edits would be nowhere near enough for someone to work out whether…

links for 2006-02-23

Google Introduces Web Page Creator (tags: google web2.0) Google’s new web page builder (tags: google web2.0)

Google Page Creator

Google has released another new service: this time a web page editor and host. Not really a competitor to it’s own Blogger service, this system just produces flat sites, so really it should be seen as belonging to the same breed…

links for 2006-02-22

Site axes MP over ‘fake’ e-mails (tags: politics email) OnTime Bug Tracking Software, Issue/Defect Tracker and Project Management (tags: project management software) Bona tempes volvant–by Guy Kawasaki: The Name Game (tags: names URLs) Netdisaster | Destroy the web! Deface the…

links for 2006-02-21

Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn 23 steps to RSS (tags: rss blogging) Alastair Campbell — master of spin driven to use IT (tags: politics it email) 10 Tips for Attracting More Comments (tags: blogging comments) Wiki Search Engine Arrives (tags:…

CSS Layout Tutorial for beginners

A tutorial that goes step by step through the process of implementing a real-world web design into a working template using CSS for layout. read more | digg story Seems a nice little tutorial for CSS beginners.