Dave

Had a lovely trip to Ellesmere this afternoon for bike rides and a picnic. Took a couple of photos – some of which are over on my Flickr page.  

My blogroll has always been accessed via BlogLines, though it has recently fallen behind since I started using FeedDemon. So, to get things updated quickly, I exported my FeedDemon list of blogs into an OPML file, which I then imported…

This afternoon, I ‘designed’ a quite frankly rubbish link icon for this blog, in the style of the little rectangles one sees on many blogs, including this one. Here it is: The font is Jason Kottke’s Silkscreen, perfect for this…

Just noticed from the phpBB site that version 2.0.17 has been released. Hopefully this will solve some of the security problems we have been having over on Palimpsest, where various web robots have been brining the site to a standstill,…

Nice profile of Tim Berners-Lee, ‘inventor’ of the World Wide Web, in today’s Guardian: There are, according to recent figures, more than 35 million web users in the UK today. More than 15 million British homes have internet connections and,…

Went on a course today (in Bristol! 3 hours drive! Still, beautiful scenery) to have a look at Snap, a piece of survey (as in questionnaires) software. It was a good course, and introduced all the various elements pretty quickly.…

This from BBC News: A South Korean man has died after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks. The 28-year-old man collapsed after playing the game Starcraft at an internet cafe in the city of…

This piece from today’s Guardian: If you’re up to date, podcasting – an automated way of making audio files (such as radio shows) available to download – should be old hat. The latest spin-off from this technology, said Ellen Lee…

Have put in a new photo to the header – one from my trip to Cambridge, squashed, filtered and generally fiddled with. Still a little way to go, so forgive me for it looking, er, a bit shit at the…

Finally got a desk for the laptop to go on last weekend, which meant that I could get a mouse at long last too – after all, there isn’t much point in having on if the thing is on your…

Am upgrading to version 1.5.1.3 of WordPress at the moment, so sorry if anyone encounters any bother…

Interesting interview with Adams Curry just posted on Naked Conversations: Interview: Adam Curry  

From the BBC: The blogosphere is continuing to grow, with a weblog created every second, according to blog trackers Technorati. In its latest State of the Blogosphere report, it said the number of blogs it was tracking now stood at…

Great quote from William Golding just popped up on ‘Quote of the Day’ on my customised Google homepage: Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.

A Good Day to Die is Kernick‘s fourth book, and it brings back the anti-hero of the first, disgraced ex-copper Dennis Milne. (Clicking the book cover takes you to Amazon – the commission helps fund Palimpsest) Kernick’s books are a…

The BBC are running a trial offering some of their radio programmes as downloads, effectively making them podcasts. Might give this a go for some of the more interesting stuff. Mark Kermode‘s film reviews might well become a regular listen.

Palimpsest has a book group, discussing books read by all the members in a topic on the forum. It has worked really well in the past, but recently has fallen behind a little. To try and perk things up a…

Go to a personaliseable (!) version of Google at www.google.com It’s actually pretty good. You have to log in with your Google ID and password, for example your gmail username, and you can set out various bits of info to…

Great quote from H.G. Wells in amner’s review of The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells. An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.