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Scoble is Switching

Über-blogger Robert Scoble is switching his blog from Typepad to WordPress. The new site is here. Note to self: subscribe to new feeds… He has chosen the Connections theme, which is the one I use here as a base template.

Google / Sun Announcement

So, the announcement has been made and it is kinda vague at the moment. Today, Sun creates yet another important relationship to add to our growing momentum. In an all-star alliance announced today, Sun and Google have begun a strategic…

Weird or What?

Now this is a strange one: looks like someone has started up a blog pretending to be me! And sadly, it isn’t very flattering. Now who would do such a thing? I guess the best thing I can do…

More photos

From recent trips to Llangollen, to see and ride on the steam train: And to see the sea at Aberystwyth: If you look at the titles I give photos on Flickr, you might notice that just recently I have been…

Comment Spam

Am being hammered on comment spam at the moment. There seem to be 10 or more every hour. Fortunatley WordPress is pretty good at holding them up so they don’t get posted on the site. Some of them are pretty…

Wikipedia on FireFox

With the Google Toolbar for Firefox installed, I never use the little search box built into the browser on the right of the address bar. But since I had a play around, I found that by visiting here, I could…

Google Office to be announced today?

Looks like some sort of announcement will be imminent. An online office suite is a very smart move by Google – whilst it couldn’t be as fully featured as the current version of OpenOffice.org, let alone MS Office, for the…

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents

Reporters Without Borders have a handbook downloadable or viewable on their website on blogging aimed at political dissidents and the like, offering advice on staying anonymous along with the usual stuff: Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and…

Ironbridge

The three of us went for a trip to Ironbridge, near Telford, with my parents a couple of weekends ago, and a fun time was had by all. More photos on my flickr page.

Palimpsest 2.0

My quietness of late is largely down to the massive amount of work I have been putting into Palimpsest, head over there and take a look for yourself. Basically, the old phpBB forum software just wasn’t up to the job.…

Links 16/9/05

Charlene Li: More on Yahoo! Mail Death to Bad Powerpoint GimpShop: The GIMP made up to look like PhotoShop – Mac only at present

Kitten

We have got a kitten! She is called Purdy. Here she is with her friend Cranky.

Katrina stuff

This is pretty remarkable: before and after aerial photos of New Orleans, from MSNBC. Also, Google provide a Katrina specific websearch, including searching for missing people.

Links 14/9/05

Have been so crap of late I thought I ought to bung up a bumper load of links today! Daily Telegraph: Profile of Steve Ballmer Google: Blog Search Search Engine Watch: Roundup Of Google Blog Search Commentary The Register: UK…

Lack of updates

Apologies for the total lack of new updates over the last week – have been working on another project which has been taking up an awful lot of time. Once it is set up though, it will be all systems…

Links 28/8/05

Haven’t updated recently, apologies. Here’s a few links I have been reading. Robert X Cringely: 08/25/05: Has Google Peaked? John Naughton: Google grows up… John Naughton’s Observer Column on Google Talk Olivier Travers: The Microsoft Office I Really Want BusinessWeek:…

For the next 5 days…

…I will mostly be reading about the Trent Bridge test match. The most entertaining way to follow it in the office is by reading the Guardian’s over-by-over commentary, which can be accessed from their Ashes page here.

Google Talk

Google have released their IM client, Google Talk. But not only is it an IM client, but you can also use it to phone other Google Talk users – for free! Won’t get to have a play until I get…

My Thoughts on GDS 2 Beta, & a Web OS

Having been playing and thinking about the new Google Desktop Search, and specifically its new sidebar form, I have the following few thoughts. Firstly, like all Google innovations, it’s US only at the moment, content wise. This means that the…