Dave

I have been playing around with Outlook 2003 in an attempt to get all my email addresses sorted out so that I regularly check them all. Previous attempts to use Thunderbird have failed as I found the way it handles…

LA Times ‘wikitorial’ gives editors red faces This is quite funny, and serves as a warning to any organisation jumping in feet first to a new technology without fully considering the likely implications. It was the boldest of innovations. A…

Yesterday I finally got round to writing another piece of Parsnip, the thoroughly inept fantasy author. They raced through the arid desert land which was what Zamora was comprised of, mostly. There were some nice bits but they were all…

Not a lot going on here I am afraid. This is entirely due to the fact that I don’t have internet access at home, and now I do much of my web browsing through FeedDemon it’s a bit tricky doing…

In response to my legions of demanding readers… The new job is going pretty well! I work in a team of about 10 people, all of whom are jolly friendly. Essentially the team pimps itself around the Council doing bits…

Yesterday was the Big Day Out for members of Palimpsest, the arts discussion site I help maintain. It was also my birthday, and what a great way to spend it. Whilst in the pub I discussed blogging for a short…

As a sweetener for members of Palimpsest who made a donation towards the hosting this year, I offered them an @palimpsest email address. This got me thinking about what other services could be offered to those who might be interested.…

WordPress 1.5.1 has been released. Better get upgraded…

BlogJetThis! Extension for FireFox 0.4 James Avery has created a FireFox extension that allows you to select text in FireFox and then blog about it using BlogJet. Great work James! If you visit the above link, you’ll see a few…

From the Guardian Online blog: In praise of Amiga Apropos of very little, I had a bit of a retro memory flashback the other day (actually it was when I dug out an old copy of Lemmings) and started thinking…

Neville Hobson writes: Three lessons about evangelism: Always consider another’s point of view – and listen to that point of view no matter how anxious you are to get across your own point of view Be passionate but consider how you…

US based celebrity blog thing is now up and running, as reported by Dan Gillmor: The Huffington Post has launched, and it’s part-Drudge (though from a different perspective), part blog of blogs. It’s obviously version 1.0, which means you should…

Just gotten round to filling in the FTP details on BlogJet, which means that if I have a photo on my PC, BlogJet will upload it for me in a specified directory on the web server, when I get round…

Doc Searles on blogs What is a blog? The oft-cited Doc Searles shares his thoughts in a PowerPoint from the “Les Blogs” conference in Paris. Or, if you’d like the html version … Try slide 17 for the nub of…

From Scoble: Google moves its blog to Blogger, adds blogroll Yeah, TDavid, it is an honor to be blogrolled on Google’s blog. Google recently moved its blog over to Blogger. So that’s why my previous attempts to subscribe to this…

History of the Graphical User Interface Ars Technica has a great history of the GUI that just came online. I was one of those “Xerox invented it, Apple stole it, Microsoft stole that” kinds of people. It’s great to realize…

Well, I am leaving Scrutiny after nearly a year and have a new job as a Business Analyst at another authority. Just a week to go – my first day is 16 May. What’s it all about? Well, project management…

Does anyone know how I can insert trackbacks to posts I am quoting or writing about whilst within BlogJet? At the moment I am having to edit posts while online to add them in, which kind of defeats the object…

8 Secrets of the New Super Blogs from Vaspers the Grate 8 Secrets of the New Super Blogs:Blog Revelations from Otherwhere (1.) Blogs will be interesting…or die. (2.) Blogs will be unusual, abnormal, unique…or die. (3.) Blogs will be practical,…

An article by Dan Gillmor: Operating Systems and Recent History Early last week, Bill Gates demonstrated Microsoft’s next Windows desktop computer operating system at a conference for manufacturers of computer hardware. Later in the week Apple started selling its latest…