Dave

I have needed a simple wiki solution for a little problem of mine, and I have found just what I was after. I just needed a page or two that could be easily edited for the handful of people who…

This is the strangest bit of comment spam I think I have ever got: You are no way on the 300th page of Google – in fact, your on the first and number 2 for my search “successful blogging” –…

after a particularly nasty bout of the winter vomit flu, which has obviously spread from the West Midlands to the Welsh borders. The few things I have read on the web recently have been posted to del.icio.us. I’ll try and…

How to Make Wikipedia better Deliciousing – Scoble wonders how to use del.icio.us best. I had a think. Why not post anything you find interesting to del.icio.us, then later on, review them and post the best of the bunch on…

Pinch, punch, first of the month. Seamonkey released The one that got away – Philip Cowley on Blair’s defeats last night. Mr Cowley was my tutor at university in Hull. How to Manage Your Draft Blog Posts Council mumbles Microsoft…

WordPress Development Blog › 2.0.1 Release Summary of changes: You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not. Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments. Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as…

Ah, payday at last. December’s pay came before Christmas – this has been one hell of a long month. Blogs versus the NY Times in Google Graham Parsnip relaunched in blog form Jody Digger has started blogging recently The winds…

I have now converted this site’s permalinks to a human readable format. This was one of those things I had thought would be really hard, so I kept putting it off. However, in WordPress 2 it’s really easy! Just go…

FeedDemon 2 has a cool little icon on each post you read to link to it in your del.icio.us archive. I’ve actually started to use this now for a few things. Here is the RSS feed, if you are interested.…

Robert Scoble has an old blog hosted at UserLand, or rather had. It’s now gone. Oh, UserLand, where did my old blogs go? Yikes, the first couple of years of my blog are gone. UserLand took down those blogs. I…

Ban Comic Sans grou.ps might be interesting, but is suffering from being dug at the moment. Google’s Anti-Spyware Project Flickr provides an RSS feed for comments on your photos – useful enough, as it means you don’t have to log…

Analyst claims so: “We believe that Google is in the midst of creating its own iTunes competitor, which we’ve dubbed ‘Google Tunes. We think this is a logical step, now that the nascent Google Video product has been introduced.” read…

Plenty going on this morning – Today kept my attention for the whole 2 hour journey… Blair apology to Soham parents Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised to the parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman for comments…

GPLv4 – just about funny, but even for geek hunour it’s borderline Barwick plans England coach talks – my choice: Guus Hiddinck. The thought that the likes of Curbishley, Allardyce or – God help us – Steve McClaren might get…

Couple of interesting points from MJR: Annoying blog comment misfeatures: letter images Just tried to leave a comment on Sasquach wears a yellow hat at blogger.com – it has one of those annoying “type the letters from the distorted image”…

The Beast – 50 most loathsome Americans, 2005 edition Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran blocks BBC Persian website The Iranian authorities have started to block the BBC’s Persian language internet site, for the first time. The BBC says the level of traffic to the site…

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google censors itself for China This is a very disturbing news story indeed, and is starting to convince me that maybe MJR is right… The company is setting up a new site – Google.cn –…

Performancing: Quick and Easy Blog Improvements Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not…