Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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Christmas Eve links

God, I am a sad git doing this today. Still, here goes: Martin Rowson retells Tristam Shandy in the Guardian The Google blog post about the AOL deal …and the Guardian‘s view of the deal That’s it. Have a good…

Advent Calendar

A poem from today’s Guardian Review by Rowan Williams: Advent Calendar He will come like last leaf’s fall.One night when the November windhas flayed the trees to bone, and earthwakes choking on the mould,the soft shroud’s folding. He will come…

WordPress and the Performancing Extension

WordPress and the Performancing Extension is a great tutorial for setting up Performancing to work with a custom WordPress install. Currently my only real gripe is with the insertion of images, where to add an ‘alt’ tag one has to…

Extending FireFox

Have finally got round to installing the Performancing extension to FireFox, and it works a treat! Here’s a snapshot of me using it to write this post. It even drags in your categories and previous entries for you! I did…

Theme disaster

Due to a total cock-up on the theme for this blog, I have had to revert it back to the original Beeblebrox one. Will have my changes back in place sometime tomorrow, hopefully!

Links 21/12/05

Google Modules – add functionality to your personalised Google home page Steve Rubel writes about the Performancing FireFox extension – which from “any page in your browser, just right click and special blog publishing frame opens. Fill it out, add…

WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate

Exciting (well, for the likes of me it is…) announcent on the WordPress development blog: The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate.…

MyHeritage.com

My Heritage is currently in beta – it’s going to be some sort of genealogy website or something – but it does have this face recognition thing on it, where you upload a photo of your face, and it tells…