Dave

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Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents

Reporters Without Borders have a handbook downloadable or viewable on their website on blogging aimed at political dissidents and the like, offering advice on staying anonymous along with the usual stuff: Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and…

Ironbridge

The three of us went for a trip to Ironbridge, near Telford, with my parents a couple of weekends ago, and a fun time was had by all. More photos on my flickr page.

Palimpsest 2.0

My quietness of late is largely down to the massive amount of work I have been putting into Palimpsest, head over there and take a look for yourself. Basically, the old phpBB forum software just wasn’t up to the job.…

Links 16/9/05

Charlene Li: More on Yahoo! Mail Death to Bad Powerpoint GimpShop: The GIMP made up to look like PhotoShop – Mac only at present

Kitten

We have got a kitten! She is called Purdy. Here she is with her friend Cranky.

Katrina stuff

This is pretty remarkable: before and after aerial photos of New Orleans, from MSNBC. Also, Google provide a Katrina specific websearch, including searching for missing people.

Links 14/9/05

Have been so crap of late I thought I ought to bung up a bumper load of links today! Daily Telegraph: Profile of Steve Ballmer Google: Blog Search Search Engine Watch: Roundup Of Google Blog Search Commentary The Register: UK…

Lack of updates

Apologies for the total lack of new updates over the last week – have been working on another project which has been taking up an awful lot of time. Once it is set up though, it will be all systems…

Links 28/8/05

Haven’t updated recently, apologies. Here’s a few links I have been reading. Robert X Cringely: 08/25/05: Has Google Peaked? John Naughton: Google grows up… John Naughton’s Observer Column on Google Talk Olivier Travers: The Microsoft Office I Really Want BusinessWeek:…

For the next 5 days…

…I will mostly be reading about the Trent Bridge test match. The most entertaining way to follow it in the office is by reading the Guardian’s over-by-over commentary, which can be accessed from their Ashes page here.