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…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
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…
Glypho
Glypho appears to be a site offering collective authorship. It looks quite interesting, but at a guess I would say the quality of writing is probaby variable…
Murder suspect’s Google searches spotlighted in trial
Horrible! From Guardian Technology: “Prosecutors claim a Mac specialist on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: “neck snap break” and “hold” before she was killed. Robert Petrick, who is defending…
Mini Me
From Guido Fawkes’ blog.
Chesterblogs
I have a job interview on Friday, for a job in Scrutiny at Chester City Council. Am quite confident and am looking forward to the idea of getting back into Scrutiny. Browsing the Council’s website, it would appear that some…
Pitfalls of using Microsoft Word
Great post from John Naughton. The United Nations have released a Word file which, in the meta data and changes tracking, reveals some pretty embarassing edits… When will people learn to stop using MS file formats to distribute material?