It’s a Saturday, so not a lot going on, despite the Google announcements. Google Pack – hasn’t everyone already got this stuff? Politics: Charles Kennedy resigns at last (aside from whether he should have done so, whether now or months…

The first of the New Year. Quentin likes Protopage a lot. Good. I think it is a brilliant service. Palimpsest discusses resolutions. I need to focus more. I have updated my book page for 2006. I have had 5 emails…

Am currently three-quarters of the way through Alain de Botton’s The Consolations of Philosophy. It’s good stuff so far. It dicusses a particular aspect of six philosophers’ work: Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Having looked up a couple…

God, I am a sad git doing this today. Still, here goes: Martin Rowson retells Tristam Shandy in the Guardian The Google blog post about the AOL deal …and the Guardian‘s view of the deal That’s it. Have a good…

Have finally got round to installing the Performancing extension to FireFox, and it works a treat! Here’s a snapshot of me using it to write this post. It even drags in your categories and previous entries for you! I did…

Google Modules – add functionality to your personalised Google home page Steve Rubel writes about the Performancing FireFox extension – which from “any page in your browser, just right click and special blog publishing frame opens. Fill it out, add…

Here is an article I have written and submitted to the now active-again Living Without Microsoft website, run by John Naughton and Quentin Stafford-Fraser. You would have thought that working without desktop applications would be pretty tricky. But there are…

Horrible! From Guardian Technology: “Prosecutors claim a Mac specialist on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: “neck snap break” and “hold” before she was killed. Robert Petrick, who is defending…

Woman auctions home – and herself BBC: Firefox share 11.5% History on his side: An interview with Robert Conquest KickRSS: takes multiple feeds and creates one feed for the lot. Could be very useful Phil Bradley’s blog moves to Typepad,…