Dave

The first major update has been made to LGSearch, the now-inaccurately described local government search engine. The sites for central government departments have now been added. You can find a list of the sites included on the LGSearch project page…

I’ve changed things around quite a bit on this blog, partly in an attempt to force myself to update it a little more often. I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, 2.1, which does various things in a much…

From Google Reader’s trends feature: From your 238 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,827 items, starred 0 items, and shared 56 items And I had the weekend off entirely… I try to remember to share the stuff…

Quite interesting chat between Stephen Fry and Tony Blair here.

When, oh when, will Steve McClaren, or whoever else is managing England, learn? Square pegs, round holes. Square pegs, round holes. Square pegs, ro… you get the picture. Picking Ben Foster and Jonathan Woodgate was good. Picking Phil Neville at…

The theme I am using on this site at the moment, Fjords01!, is beatiful. But for some reason the CSS makes italics (through the em tag) appear like this. Until I get round to changing the stylesheet, I am having…

Despite being an avid reader of RSS feeds – not just from blogs, but other sites like newspapers, and other new organisations – I still get a newspaper every day. I guess this runs somewhat contrary to the idea that…

Charlie Brooker, TV reviewing god, has a pop at the ‘I’m a Mac’ ad campaign with his usual savagery: The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign – the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They…

Penguin, the publishers, have unleashed a cool idea: a novel written on a wiki. There’s a blog just for the project, too. Great that they are using open source tools: WordPress and MediaWiki. The main Penguin blog (Typepad, boo) notes…

Robert Scoble has enraged many in the blogosphere by accepting an invitation to speak to a conference organised and sponsored by PayPerPost – everyone’s most hated blog-related company. I know this conference will be controversial — one way to get…