Dave

An article by Dan Gillmor: Operating Systems and Recent History Early last week, Bill Gates demonstrated Microsoft’s next Windows desktop computer operating system at a conference for manufacturers of computer hardware. Later in the week Apple started selling its latest…

Interesting article on Michael Howard’s signal of his intention to resign as leader of the Tories on the BBC. The last thing the Tories want is another instant resignation similar to William Hague’s the day after the 2001 election defeat.…

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…

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 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…

And here is my del.icio.us page. Both this and the Furl one have RSS feeds to subscribe to. del.icio.us/theclosedcircle

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…

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…

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…

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…