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Jason Kottke’s ‘analogue palm pilot‘: It’s simple, and it works. Always the best way.

Melanie Phillips has picked up on Iain Duncan Smith’s article in The Guardian. Phillips, I shoud point out, is someone I read for the same reason people pick scabs. It irritating, slightly painful, but nevertheless weirdly addictive. Anyway, her point…

Heh, well, I’m pretty chuffed. My Ten Thoughts on Successful Blogging was linked by Mr Scoble himself. Many thanks to him for that. Now, if I have more visitors here, I might need to think up something interesting to say.…

It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Hunter S Thompson dies at 67

1. Read more blogs What you get out of your blog depends entirely on what you put in. Good, interesting blogs do not evolve in a vacuum. Read as many blogs as you can. Not only will you pick up…

Plenty of stuff going on the link blog. I was uncertain at first whether or not to just have this stuff on this blog, and give it a new category, so if that’s what people wanted to look at they…

Blogaholics: How Robert Scoble Reads 1000 blogs a day Using his aggregator to pull his information, he can then access it on his laptop, his cell phone, or even on his television. Yes, it seems it is with him no…

Iain Duncan Smith thinks blogging can help the Tories win the election! For decades the national conversation in most western countries has been directed by a few talking heads. Newspapers play important roles but all the evidence suggests that broadcasters…

From the Common Craft blog: 1. Write what you know. Everyone is an expert in a small number of things. 2. Listen. The mythology of blogging is about putting things into the world, but the other part of that is…

Continuing the coverage of his new novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro is interviewed in today’s Observer. From his semi-detached house in suburban Golders Green, in north London, Kazuo Ishiguro has made himself an architect of singular, self-enclosed worlds.…

BBC has an article along similar lines to those I mentioned here. “If a friend is excited about a concert and that gives me an idea for a birthday gift, I will store the info on e-mail,” says Georges Harik,…

From the Guardian today: “I try to stay in the moment,” Frank Rijkaard says quietly as he studies the thick cloud of smoke hanging over his head. “Whether the moment is one of joy or difficulty or just sitting here…

The Guardian profile Kazuo Ishiguro today. Kazuo Ishiguro’s early career set a modern benchmark for precocious literary success. Born in 1954, in 1982 he won the Winifred Holtby award for the best expression of a sense of place, for his…

After The Wasp Factory, which shouldn’t last much longer than this evening, I am going to have a crack at this: Some good Palimthoughts from the ever reliable Self here.

No comment required. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sex hungry roaches lured to death Synthetic sex pheromones are being developed as an ingenious way of luring randy cockroaches to their deaths.

Smarties to come in hexagonal tubes? Whatever next? BBC NEWS | Business | Smarties set to lose their tube

I only managed to figure out last night how to get Firefox to open multiple tabs on startup, each with a different page loading. And guess what? It was very simple to do. Simple set your tabs up as you…

John O’Farrell on the dearth of English players in the Premiership, following Arsenal’s all-foreign efforts this week: This week, another football landmark was reached when a Premiership team fielded an entire squad of foreign players. “What is Arsene Wenger doing?”…

From The Guardian: The last time Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur met in the FA Cup, it was the 1991 final. Wembley was filled with Puffa jackets, videos were set for Saturday-night favourite Noel’s House Party, and Cher’s Shoop Shoop…