Not moving
Moving URLs is a stupid idea. What was I thinking of? It’d be crazy to just abandon all the existing links out there and would take ages to sort everything out. Instead, I’m just going to change the name of…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Moving…
I am going to ignore my own advice and move this blog’s URL next week. The new address will be Obviously I will keep the two running side by side for a day or two to ensure everything has…
Living without the Desktop
Here is an article I have written and submitted to the now active-again Living Without Microsoft website, run by John Naughton and Quentin Stafford-Fraser. You would have thought that working without desktop applications would be pretty tricky. But there are…
PAD
The Palimpsest Authors Directory is up and running, and the slog is now to get some content in there. Most of it is being cut and pasted from Wikipedia, which is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. This means…
Writely recognition
Wasn’t aware of this, but when browsing through the Writely blog, I found this snippet of a press release: Since its beta launch in August 2005, Writely has enjoyed enthusiastic adoption from users all over the world including businesses, bloggers,…
Links 8/12/05
A slightly more wordy list than usual today: I don’t think I will have time for any lengthy articles but will keep returning to this throughout the day. HipCal is the new name of MyPimp. Apparently the developers had originally…
Back now
Well, I am back now and should be posting again more often. Here’s a few things I have been playing around with recently, some of these things may never see the light of day. I’m looking into trying to do…
Absence
Apologies for the disruption in service. Little’un has been in hospital for a while and all my spare time is spent with him and my better half. Hopefully they will be home and normal service resumed later this week.
Visual Book List
I have started a visual book list. Looks quite nice, though the numbers of unfinished books worries me slightly. Will get round to writing little reviews at some point for each one.
Chain Reading
Chain Reading. It’s like a social booklist keeping thing. Kind of. You select the book you are reading, and have read, and will read. Recommend them to people. Maybe they will recommend some to you. Fairly interesting. Of course, some…