Dave

From BBC News: A Japanese man has died after being tackled by fellow train passengers who believed he had molested a woman during the morning rush hour. The man fled the train at a station in the city of Osaka…

Exciting (well, for the likes of me it is…) announcent on the WordPress development blog: The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate.…

My Heritage is currently in beta – it’s going to be some sort of genealogy website or something – but it does have this face recognition thing on it, where you upload a photo of your face, and it tells…

Uncyclopedia – a pretty funny Wikipedia spoof Goal Mouths is now live BBC Technology: What is it with Wikipedia? Guardian Technology on Yahoo!

Moving URLs is a stupid idea. What was I thinking of? It’d be crazy to just abandon all the existing links out there and would take ages to sort everything out. Instead, I’m just going to change the name of…

I am going to ignore my own advice and move this blog’s URL next week. The new address will be Obviously I will keep the two running side by side for a day or two to ensure everything has…

Here is an article I have written and submitted to the now active-again Living Without Microsoft website, run by John Naughton and Quentin Stafford-Fraser. You would have thought that working without desktop applications would be pretty tricky. But there are…

The Palimpsest Authors Directory is up and running, and the slog is now to get some content in there. Most of it is being cut and pasted from Wikipedia, which is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. This means…

Wasn’t aware of this, but when browsing through the Writely blog, I found this snippet of a press release: Since its beta launch in August 2005, Writely has enjoyed enthusiastic adoption from users all over the world including businesses, bloggers,…

A slightly more wordy list than usual today: I don’t think I will have time for any lengthy articles but will keep returning to this throughout the day. HipCal is the new name of MyPimp. Apparently the developers had originally…

Well, I am back now and should be posting again more often. Here’s a few things I have been playing around with recently, some of these things may never see the light of day. I’m looking into trying to do…

Apologies for the disruption in service. Little’un has been in hospital for a while and all my spare time is spent with him and my better half. Hopefully they will be home and normal service resumed later this week.

I have started a visual book list. Looks quite nice, though the numbers of unfinished books worries me slightly. Will get round to writing little reviews at some point for each one.

Chain Reading. It’s like a social booklist keeping thing. Kind of. You select the book you are reading, and have read, and will read. Recommend them to people. Maybe they will recommend some to you. Fairly interesting. Of course, some…

Glypho appears to be a site offering collective authorship. It looks quite interesting, but at a guess I would say the quality of writing is probaby variable…

Horrible! From Guardian Technology: “Prosecutors claim a Mac specialist on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: “neck snap break” and “hold” before she was killed. Robert Petrick, who is defending…

From Guido Fawkes’ blog.

I have a job interview on Friday, for a job in Scrutiny at Chester City Council. Am quite confident and am looking forward to the idea of getting back into Scrutiny. Browsing the Council’s website, it would appear that some…

Great post from John Naughton. The United Nations have released a Word file which, in the meta data and changes tracking, reveals some pretty embarassing edits… When will people learn to stop using MS file formats to distribute material?

With enough eyeballs, all bugs are invisible Pitiful spectacle of an old DOS trying to do new tricks