Dave

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…

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…

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.

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.…

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

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

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.

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…

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…

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:…

…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 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…

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…

Google Sidebar is part of the new version 2 of Desktop Search. It works pretty much like Desktop Sidebar, but obviously with all Google services involved. It features an email preview pane, which will pick up your Gmail, if you…

Shel Israel: 5 Reasons to Worry about Google John Naughton: Computers and masochism – links to today’s Observer column I, Cringely: Patently Absurd Kottke: So long, Technorati 43 Folders: Life inside one big text file

Well, the trip was a great success – we had a lovely time and, most importantly, she said YES! Here’s a couple of photos – more on Flickr.

BBC: Cheap laptops provoke Mac mayhem Met chief tried to stop shooting inquiry Guardian Online: Apple hack Guardian Online: Back to the fold PC World: Reading (and Writing) Blogs

The Register: Cockney suits abuse f**king email Guardian Online: Utter Rubbish Joho the Blog: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Infocom Game Business2Blog: Outsourcing Blogs (and Splogs) to China Guardian Football: Scholes makes it easier for Eriksson

Great collection of hints and tips for Gmail users here, as linked to yesterday by John Naughton.

As reported in The Guardian: I’ve never read a book, says Posh. I would have thought that should anyone have actually wasted their time considering this issue, they would have assumed that was the case anyway? Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty and Bookish…