Ah, payday at last. December’s pay came before Christmas – this has been one hell of a long month. Blogs versus the NY Times in Google Graham Parsnip relaunched in blog form Jody Digger has started blogging recently The winds…

FeedDemon 2 has a cool little icon on each post you read to link to it in your del.icio.us archive. I’ve actually started to use this now for a few things. Here is the RSS feed, if you are interested.…

Ban Comic Sans grou.ps might be interesting, but is suffering from being dug at the moment. Google’s Anti-Spyware Project Flickr provides an RSS feed for comments on your photos – useful enough, as it means you don’t have to log…

Plenty going on this morning – Today kept my attention for the whole 2 hour journey… Blair apology to Soham parents Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised to the parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman for comments…

The Beast – 50 most loathsome Americans, 2005 edition Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize

Performancing: Quick and Easy Blog Improvements Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not…

Just logged into my web-based RSS aggregator (I am using Newsgator these days) to find hundreds of posts all wishing me a happy new year. Great, thanks everyone. I must be in  a bad mood today. Still, if people just…

The Palimpsest Authors Directory is up and running, and the slog is now to get some content in there. Most of it is being cut and pasted from Wikipedia, which is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. This means…

Wasn’t aware of this, but when browsing through the Writely blog, I found this snippet of a press release: Since its beta launch in August 2005, Writely has enjoyed enthusiastic adoption from users all over the world including businesses, bloggers,…

Everyone has heard of NaNoWriMo, the web-organised novel writing sprint, which involves writing 50,000 words to get a novel finished during the month of November. It sounds like madness, and it is. What’s the point of it? Well, part of…