I just activated the Akismet anti-blog comment spam plug-in. Let’s see how well it works – I am not being flooded with spam right at the moment because this blog is so new. We’ll see how it goes. I am pretty…

Lorelle on WordPress is a great blog for people who use the universe’s greatest blogging app. Her last two posts are both pretty interesting and I’m going to investigate them both a bit further: Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin Update…

K2 seems like a really interesting theme for WordPress. It is still in beta at the moment, but I have installed on World of Dave just to see how it works and looks. I actually really like the feel of…

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the applications I use on a regular basis. This was obviously on the Windows laptop I am using right now. This is going to change in a major way pretty soon, when I…

So, what made me want to change things round? Well, there have been, or are going to be, several changes to the way I am doing things generally, IT-wise. One thing is that I really wanted to move away from…

Right, so I have put in place the new blogs. The tech blog, which is what most people will be interested in, is now at and the feed is The ‘personal’ blog is at /worldofdave and the feed…

Here’s the first post, taking over from where davebriggs.net left off. Well, some of it. This is where I am going to be doing all of the tech stuff I used to write about – in other words, most of…

You may have noticed a complete lack of action on this blog of late. That’s partially because of life getting in the way, but more a case of me planning to move away from it. I am going to be…

From the Guardian‘s perennially unreliable Rumour Mill: And we’ll usher in the weekend with a long-awaited bit of good news for Nottingham Forest fans after more than a year of Gary route-one Megson: Nigel Clough is rumoured to be tempted…

Google’s recent page creator has drawn some conflicting views. I’ll pluck two out here. Scoble is broadly in favour: I see a lot of bloggers saying “so” about Google’s new Web Page Creator. I think bloggers often miss the larger…

Stikipad, which I mentioned in my brief round up of wikis recently, has now made it’s free account have unlimited edits. Thank goodness sanity has prevailed – 5 edits would be nowhere near enough for someone to work out whether…

Google has released another new service: this time a web page editor and host. Not really a competitor to it’s own Blogger service, this system just produces flat sites, so really it should be seen as belonging to the same breed…

A tutorial that goes step by step through the process of implementing a real-world web design into a working template using CSS for layout. read more | digg story Seems a nice little tutorial for CSS beginners.

K4 Bulletin Board entirely made in ajax, first forum to be fully transformed with ajax requiring no refreshing. read more | digg story Looks interesting – site is suffering from being dugg at the moment.  

New FeedDemon beta released – actually, twice. Two versions came out on subsequent days this week. Beta 2 of FeedDemon 2, the RSS aggregator for Windows, was released this week. If you’ve been testing FD’s development versions since release 1.5,…

Qumana Beta 2 has been released and it addresses the WordPress issue I (and many others) mentioned earlier. I must say I have been hugely impressed with the way the Qumana people have engaged with those offering feedback on their product. So, to keep it coming, here’s…

So, I had a quick look last night at the bottom of my Gmail window – where it says how much space my emails are taking up. Was shocked that it was 25% of the 2695 MB available. I thought…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that it is a good idea for a blogger to have his or her email address easily accessible. But what about when that email address isn’t one that a reader would want to use? I…

Well, this is my first post with Qumana (Version 3 beta 1), a free desktop offline blog post editor. It’s pretty cool, though I do have some issues with it. Feature wise, it does everything you would expect, offering a…

I have been playing with the daily post setting on del.icio.us and tonight I’ll find out if it is going to work… Basically, the daily post spits out a post to your blog containing all the sites I linked to…