Dave

Much planning is being done over at Palimpsest for the second Big Day Out, which we have all been looking forward to after the success of last year’s. It seems like a few new Palimpers will be coming along, which…

My local council has a forum which no one uses. Well, I thought I would give it a go, largely because I was so annoyed at how long it took me to find out my local councillors’ names and contact…

Been browsing through Flickr and found this beauty from Chillicheese: Palimper and blogger. I have recently become a ‘pro’ member of flickr, largely so that I can dump loads of family photos for distant family members to see, so they are…

The first of the New Year. Quentin likes Protopage a lot. Good. I think it is a brilliant service. Palimpsest discusses resolutions. I need to focus more. I have updated my book page for 2006. I have had 5 emails…

Just logged into my web-based RSS aggregator (I am using Newsgator these days) to find hundreds of posts all wishing me a happy new year. Great, thanks everyone. I must be in  a bad mood today. Still, if people just…

The Rock is a disused limestone quarry which overlooks the village, now a nature reserve. A brilliant place for rambling walks. Loads more photos on my Flickr page.

Guy Kawasaki writes about  his 10/20/30 Rule of  Powerpoint: It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

Just finished The Consolations of Philosophy, and while it took me a while to read a 250-odd page paperback, it was enjoyable stuff throughout. De Botton picks 6 philosophers and 6 predicaments, one for each philosopher to console us. It’s…