Dave

For some reason, whenever I have visited Google today, it has bounced me straight to – in other words, the Personalised Google page. This happens whether or not I am logged into my Google account. Is Google starting to…

For some reasons Google Analytics isn’t working properly on hyprtext. The background for the graphs are there, but no data appears on them! This worked perfectly in FF on XP. Is there some sort of issue with Ubuntu? [tags]google analytics,…

Word Count Journal might be a good option if you would like to start a blog, but aren’t sure how you will manage the words. A blogging NaNoWriMo, anyone? Sometimes a little bit really does go a long way. In…

Of course they didn’t. But for a little while, it looked like they might have done: Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country. Wikipedia has blocked that IP address for…

Stuff about microformats seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment. I first came across them in a post by Simon Dickson. The latest piece appeared on the Read/WriteWeb blog, which in turn introduced me to…

Quentin Stafford-Fraser (British web pioneer, who helped devise the first webcam) points to a frightening article by Peter Gutman about “Microsoft’s devotion to ‘content-protection’”. From Peter’s executive summary: Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order…

Mike Arrington has opened up a storm of a debate over at TechCrunch, criticising the official Google blog for not allowing comments. He’s picking the issue up from a post by Zoli Erdos. He asks Is a blog really a…