Big Day Out 2

Much planning is being done over at Palimpsest for the second Big Day Out, which we have all been looking forward to after the success of last year’s. It seems like a few new Palimpers will be coming along, which will be nice. So far, 11 have signed up, with 2 maybes. Am staying over … Keep reading

Council Website

My local council has a forum which no one uses. Well, I thought I would give it a go, largely because I was so annoyed at how long it took me to find out my local councillors’ names and contact info (I want to find out what is happening to the park in our village, … Keep reading

Librivox, Performancing problem

Librivox is an interesting project, a kind of audio Gutenberg, running on a mixture of WordPress and phpBB. Volunteers collaborate on recording mp3s of classic, out-of-copyright texts. As with all these things, the quality must be variable, but it is a laudable project. Performancing has a problem: the HTML it spits out into blog posts … Keep reading

Businessman wins e-mail spam case

Interesting story from the BBC: Businessman wins e-mail spam caseA businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. Nigel Roberts, who lives in Alderney in the Channel Islands, took action against Media Logistics UK over junk e-mails in … Keep reading