The current situation in the Middle East is unbelievably depressing. Stuff like this from Melanie Phillips hardly makes one more sympathetic to the Israelis.

Hadn’t come across this before, but the children’s charity SOS Children’s Villages UK has produced a downloadable .zip of Wikipedia entries they think would be useful to children in terms of subject and quality, that people can distribute via CD.…

Un-Made-Up is a great little blog just started by the journalist and author William Shaw. It features true stories submitted by readers, all under 1,000 words long. Well worth a look.

Since Lee (who is rapidly losing my respect) has pooh-poohed my earlier attempt at a logo for B.O.L.L.O.C.K.S., and even Amsterdam-resident Neville thought it a little on the risque-side, I have attempted another one. I thought this might suitably reflect…

ajaxTunes is the latest in the line of web based desktop replacement services from Michael Robertson. It claims to be: …a web-based media player that lets you play, pause, forward and rewind high-quality streaming music straight from the Internet on…

The Museum of Modern Betas has issued a list of the ‘biggest’ beta services out there, as measured by the number of times they have been bookmarked in del.icio.us. One of the ones it points out, that I hadn’t come…

Google have added a directory of possible services to their personal homepage, as announced on their official blog. It provides a much wider variety of easy-to-add content than before, but doesn’t stop the homepage being a pretty static and dull…

Just had news that my new desktop PC is on its way and will be here on Monday. Woot! Then I can get cracking with installing Ubuntu onto it… perhaps a few days off to get it sorted would be…

MJR thinks of an explanation for the proliferation of cup upsets over the last week: England’s football fans had the pleasure of random football scores last weekend: the FA Cup. Why is there so much expectation of upsets? I think…