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Blunkett returns in new Cabinet

Blunkett returns in new Cabinet, according to the BBC: David Blunkett has returned to the Cabinet as work and pensions secretary as Tony Blair reshuffles his top team. Patricia Hewitt has been appointed health secretary – with John Reid moving…

Link Directory Page

Am working on a large list of links of pages I regularly visit. At the moment it is very incomplete, so have temporarily password protected it.

Backpack

Backpack is a genuinely brilliant site. It is essentially an online personal information manager, giving you the ability to maintain an online diary or keep todo lists, posts photos and all sorts.   Steve Rubel explains it far better than…

Furl

Furl is a bookmark manager, rather like del.icio.us, I think. I am going to give both of them a try and see which is most useful, if either. Here’s the link for my Furl page which as yet has only…

Election 2005 Stuff

So, another Labour government, albeit with a much reduced majority. Probably the best result all round. Here are some interesting snippets from The Guardian‘s coverage this morning. Tony Blair alone bears the blame – Polly Toynbee The Tories’ Michael Foot…

DIY Declassification

This from John Naughton is priceless! DIY declassification Ho, ho! The Pentagon released a heavily-censored PDF version of its report into the shooting, by US troops, of the Italian secret agent who was escorting a freed hostage to safety. But…

Is Search the Future of Desktop Computing?

Interesting post on Microsoft Monitor about the future of Windows:  What Microsoft really needs to do is transcend the traditional user interface and fundamentally transform how people interact with the operating system. But not in some newfangled way that would…

Things I Use

Thought it might be of some interest to share details of what software and services I use on a regular basis on my PC. Then again, it might well be incredibly boring. Here goes anyway. I use FireFox most of…

Return of the native

Really thoughtful article here from the BBCs Stephen Sackur on his return to the UK after 15 years of foreign jaunts. Until I was 18 years old, I had never met a black man or woman. Nor, knowingly at least,…