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New Google Desktop Blog Guardian Technology: Microsoft: 1995 redux?

Everyone has heard of NaNoWriMo, the web-organised novel writing sprint, which involves writing 50,000 words to get a novel finished during the month of November. It sounds like madness, and it is. What’s the point of it? Well, part of…

Microsoft have released two websites just recently: one that barely works and one that doesn’t actually do anything at all. The first is live.com, some sort of portal that seems rather like start.com, though Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s chief apologist, claims…

Phil B: I want to… Dilbert’s blog Nextaris – Pretty much lets you do anything with your files online

Two in two days! You are so lucky. Tony Finch: Frustrated by Thunderbird The Guardian: You can judge a person by their book covers

I love these posters. The sheer awfulness of the puns they employ never fail to make me smile. This was taken on my cameraphone (hence (lack of) quality) in Warwick.

Haven’t done one of these for a while. Sorry! Joel: Something Rotten in AdSense CyberJournalist: Top 10 Reasons for Reading a News Site Google Base Was Sort of Live Phil Bradley asks which blogging system he should switch to

Palimpsest’s Book Group is reading two H.G. Wells books at the moment. Being a skinflint, I thought I would download them from Project Gutenberg, a library of free books available in ext format, and sometimes HTML. The two novels are:…

Been listening to Radio 4 and the Today programme on the way into work recently. This morning’s news was full of interesting stuff: Galloway accused of Senate ‘lies’ – I am no fan of Galloway’s, but I do find it…

The Guardian asks whether the content in Wikipedia is worth all that much, and gets some experts to judge some entries. The founder of the online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has admitted some of its entries are…

I recently joined Screen Select, an online DVD rental store. I had previously been a member of Amazon’s effort, but I cancelled as I was bereft of a DVD player for a few months. I pay £12.99 a month for…

Both Scoble and MJR have referred to Jakob Nielson’s tips for a well designed site, which is actually presented as a list of mistakes. A lot of the stuff in here prompted me to change the layout of this site.

Have uploaded and slightly modified a new style. I wasn’t unhappy with the last one, but was concious that it was completely non-standards compliant and very graphics-heavy. The other advantage of this one is that it goes against the annoying…

Interesting debate on IE vs. Firefox on Palimpsest.

We have done loads this weekend. I was taken over with a real desire to get out into the fresh air, and fortunately we have tonnes of it around here. Here’s some photos of the places we went – more…

I have always been a self-taught bodge job type of web designer, and nothing I have ever designed has passed the w3c validator test. So, I decided recently, just as a technical exercise, to try and create a site which…

MyPimp is an online personal information manager, using the latest flashy ajax technology that many of the Web 2.0 apps are using, like Writely, for example. Interestingly, when using it with IE, a big message in a red box appears…

Saw a strange thing on logging in to Gmail this morning: And here’s the explaination: We have been involved in a dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK. Another company has claimed rights to the Gmail name. We have…

Reader is the new RSS aggregator from Google. And I am rather sorry to say that it is rubbish. It uses a lot of the java technology that works so well on Gmail, and alright on the personalised home page.…

John Naughton links to Writely, an online word processor. This is the sort of thing I have discussed earlier, that Google could provide after their link up with Sun, using the OpenOffice.org applications as a base. This might be useful…