An online notebook
A day off work today. A few quick things before I get on. Maybe more later… Google Print is online. Had a quick play, looking for H.G. Wells’ The First Men on the Moon. Sadly that text is still under copyright so not all of it is available. Plenty of other classics are there in … Keep reading
Microsoft have released two websites just recently: one that barely works and one that doesn’t actually do anything at all. The first is live.com, some sort of portal that seems rather like start.com, though Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s chief apologist, claims there will be more to it than that. At the moment though, it doesn’t work … Keep reading
Palimpsest’s Book Group is reading two H.G. Wells books at the moment. Being a skinflint, I thought I would download them from Project Gutenberg, a library of free books available in ext format, and sometimes HTML. The two novels are: The First Men on the Moon The Sleeper Awakes The trouble is that often the … Keep reading
Interesting debate on IE vs. Firefox on Palimpsest.
John Naughton links to Writely, an online word processor. This is the sort of thing I have discussed earlier, that Google could provide after their link up with Sun, using the OpenOffice.org applications as a base. This might be useful for something I am working on, where three people are editing the same file. At … Keep reading