Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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NaNoWriMoSest

Everyone has heard of NaNoWriMo, the web-organised novel writing sprint, which involves writing 50,000 words to get a novel finished during the month of November. It sounds like madness, and it is. What’s the point of it? Well, part of…

Microsoft Going Live

Microsoft have released two websites just recently: one that barely works and one that doesn’t actually do anything at all. The first is live.com, some sort of portal that seems rather like start.com, though Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s chief apologist, claims…

Links 1/11/05

Phil B: I want to… Dilbert’s blog Nextaris – Pretty much lets you do anything with your files online

Links 26/10/05

Two in two days! You are so lucky. Tony Finch: Frustrated by Thunderbird The Guardian: You can judge a person by their book covers

Links 25/10/05

Haven’t done one of these for a while. Sorry! Joel: Something Rotten in AdSense CyberJournalist: Top 10 Reasons for Reading a News Site Google Base Was Sort of Live Phil Bradley asks which blogging system he should switch to

Gutenberg formatting

Palimpsest’s Book Group is reading two H.G. Wells books at the moment. Being a skinflint, I thought I would download them from Project Gutenberg, a library of free books available in ext format, and sometimes HTML. The two novels are:…

In the News

Been listening to Radio 4 and the Today programme on the way into work recently. This morning’s news was full of interesting stuff: Galloway accused of Senate ‘lies’ – I am no fan of Galloway’s, but I do find it…

Can you trust Wikipedia?

The Guardian asks whether the content in Wikipedia is worth all that much, and gets some experts to judge some entries. The founder of the online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has admitted some of its entries are…