Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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Gmail Journal

Interesting post here on using a gmail (or indeed any free webmail account) as a journal or note-taking system. The great thing about using Gmail is of course the labels which means you can organise your notes easily. I might…

Sideways

I have just invested in this: Which I saw in Waterstones, strangely without a UK price on the back. It turned out it was £8.99. My interest was first sparked by this article in the Guardian, which made it sound…

The Wasp Factory

I’m going to try and blog more about the books I am reading at the time, my thoughts and stuff as I am going through them. This will be especially true when I embark upon Ulysees, which will need plenty…

Panic Over

I found A Prayer for Owen Meany this morning, thank God. Wedged between two bookcases. Good job I didn’t buy another copy yesterday! Instead, I did get three books: Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Any Human Heart – William Boyd The…

Snuffing out the Forest fire

Interesting, well written and very depressing article about Forest on Soccernet. Tottenham Hotspur versus Nottingham Forest is a fixture of historic significance. In 1991, it was the FA Cup final, a match remembered for Paul Gascoigne’s self-destructive tackling. But for…

Stuff from Scoble

Robert Scoble blogs about Onfolio 2.0. Looks like I am going to have to look at this news aggregator which integrates with Firefox. Look very interesting. Nice screenshot here.

WordPress 1.5

…is now available for download. A job to be left for the weekend, I think. An impresive new wiki has been built to house the documentation, using the Mediawiki engine.

Disaster!

A terrible thing has happened. I rushed home this evening to finish off the last few pages of A Prayer for Owen Meany, only to find that it has gone! Vanished! I cannot find it anywhere! I am appalled, aghast…