Dave

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…

The WordPress blog has finally announced the release of version 2.0, or ‘Duke’. The post presents a nice list of new features for users: Completely Redesigned Backend — The first thing you’ll notice when you login to your blog is…

Am currently three-quarters of the way through Alain de Botton’s The Consolations of Philosophy. It’s good stuff so far. It dicusses a particular aspect of six philosophers’ work: Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Having looked up a couple…

Written by the man himself!

Librivox is an interesting project, a kind of audio Gutenberg, running on a mixture of WordPress and phpBB. Volunteers collaborate on recording mp3s of classic, out-of-copyright texts. As with all these things, the quality must be variable, but it is…