This from BBC News: A South Korean man has died after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks. The 28-year-old man collapsed after playing the game Starcraft at an internet cafe in the city of…

Go to a personaliseable (!) version of Google at www.google.com It’s actually pretty good. You have to log in with your Google ID and password, for example your gmail username, and you can set out various bits of info to…

We have invested in a new digital camera, so hopefully a few more photos will be appearing on here and on my criminally underused Flickr page. It looks like this:

Christ, I feel terrible. Off work again for the second time in three weeks. Think it must be Glandular fever – others have had it recently. Still, it gives me plenty of time to loll in bed and do nothing…

From Phil Bradley: If you’re a Firefox user, Google has now produced a version of the toolbar for the browser. Features are listed from the link: Google Toolbar Help

Had a pretty good drive to work this morning – right up until I reached Henley. Between there and Warwick, I and about 30 others were trapped behind some numpty doing 40 in a 60 the whole way. Meant I…

LA Times ‘wikitorial’ gives editors red faces This is quite funny, and serves as a warning to any organisation jumping in feet first to a new technology without fully considering the likely implications. It was the boldest of innovations. A…

BlogJetThis! Extension for FireFox 0.4 James Avery has created a FireFox extension that allows you to select text in FireFox and then blog about it using BlogJet. Great work James! If you visit the above link, you’ll see a few…

From Scoble: Google moves its blog to Blogger, adds blogroll Yeah, TDavid, it is an honor to be blogrolled on Google’s blog. Google recently moved its blog over to Blogger. So that’s why my previous attempts to subscribe to this…

History of the Graphical User Interface Ars Technica has a great history of the GUI that just came online. I was one of those “Xerox invented it, Apple stole it, Microsoft stole that” kinds of people. It’s great to realize…