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Tim Berners-Lee

Nice profile of Tim Berners-Lee, ‘inventor’ of the World Wide Web, in today’s Guardian: There are, according to recent figures, more than 35 million web users in the UK today. More than 15 million British homes have internet connections and,…

Snap!

Went on a course today (in Bristol! 3 hours drive! Still, beautiful scenery) to have a look at Snap, a piece of survey (as in questionnaires) software. It was a good course, and introduced all the various elements pretty quickly.…

How depressing

This from BBC News: A South Korean man has died after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks. The 28-year-old man collapsed after playing the game Starcraft at an internet cafe in the city of…

Godcasting, anyone?

This piece from today’s Guardian: If you’re up to date, podcasting – an automated way of making audio files (such as radio shows) available to download – should be old hat. The latest spin-off from this technology, said Ellen Lee…

Header changes

Have put in a new photo to the header – one from my trip to Cambridge, squashed, filtered and generally fiddled with. Still a little way to go, so forgive me for it looking, er, a bit shit at the…

Mouse

Finally got a desk for the laptop to go on last weekend, which meant that I could get a mouse at long last too – after all, there isn’t much point in having on if the thing is on your…

One blog created ‘every second’

From the BBC: The blogosphere is continuing to grow, with a weblog created every second, according to blog trackers Technorati. In its latest State of the Blogosphere report, it said the number of blogs it was tracking now stood at…

William Golding

Great quote from William Golding just popped up on ‘Quote of the Day’ on my customised Google homepage: Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.