Dave

Palimpsest’s Book Group is reading two H.G. Wells books at the moment. Being a skinflint, I thought I would download them from Project Gutenberg, a library of free books available in ext format, and sometimes HTML. The two novels are:…

Been listening to Radio 4 and the Today programme on the way into work recently. This morning’s news was full of interesting stuff: Galloway accused of Senate ‘lies’ – I am no fan of Galloway’s, but I do find it…

The Guardian asks whether the content in Wikipedia is worth all that much, and gets some experts to judge some entries. The founder of the online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has admitted some of its entries are…

I recently joined Screen Select, an online DVD rental store. I had previously been a member of Amazon’s effort, but I cancelled as I was bereft of a DVD player for a few months. I pay £12.99 a month for…

Both Scoble and MJR have referred to Jakob Nielson’s tips for a well designed site, which is actually presented as a list of mistakes. A lot of the stuff in here prompted me to change the layout of this site.

Have uploaded and slightly modified a new style. I wasn’t unhappy with the last one, but was concious that it was completely non-standards compliant and very graphics-heavy. The other advantage of this one is that it goes against the annoying…

Interesting debate on IE vs. Firefox on Palimpsest.

We have done loads this weekend. I was taken over with a real desire to get out into the fresh air, and fortunately we have tonnes of it around here. Here’s some photos of the places we went – more…

I have always been a self-taught bodge job type of web designer, and nothing I have ever designed has passed the w3c validator test. So, I decided recently, just as a technical exercise, to try and create a site which…

MyPimp is an online personal information manager, using the latest flashy ajax technology that many of the Web 2.0 apps are using, like Writely, for example. Interestingly, when using it with IE, a big message in a red box appears…

Saw a strange thing on logging in to Gmail this morning: And here’s the explaination: We have been involved in a dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK. Another company has claimed rights to the Gmail name. We have…

Reader is the new RSS aggregator from Google. And I am rather sorry to say that it is rubbish. It uses a lot of the java technology that works so well on Gmail, and alright on the personalised home page.…

John Naughton links to Writely, an online word processor. This is the sort of thing I have discussed earlier, that Google could provide after their link up with Sun, using the OpenOffice.org applications as a base. This might be useful…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…