I have always been a self-taught bodge job type of web designer, and nothing I have ever designed has passed the w3c validator test. So, I decided recently, just as a technical exercise, to try and create a site which…

MyPimp is an online personal information manager, using the latest flashy ajax technology that many of the Web 2.0 apps are using, like Writely, for example. Interestingly, when using it with IE, a big message in a red box appears…

Saw a strange thing on logging in to Gmail this morning: And here’s the explaination: We have been involved in a dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK. Another company has claimed rights to the Gmail name. We have…

Reader is the new RSS aggregator from Google. And I am rather sorry to say that it is rubbish. It uses a lot of the java technology that works so well on Gmail, and alright on the personalised home page.…

John Naughton links to Writely, an online word processor. This is the sort of thing I have discussed earlier, that Google could provide after their link up with Sun, using the OpenOffice.org applications as a base. This might be useful…

Über-blogger Robert Scoble is switching his blog from Typepad to WordPress. The new site is here. Note to self: subscribe to new feeds… He has chosen the Connections theme, which is the one I use here as a base template.

So, the announcement has been made and it is kinda vague at the moment. Today, Sun creates yet another important relationship to add to our growing momentum. In an all-star alliance announced today, Sun and Google have begun a strategic…

Now this is a strange one: looks like someone has started up a blog pretending to be me! And sadly, it isn’t very flattering. Now who would do such a thing? I guess the best thing I can do…

From recent trips to Llangollen, to see and ride on the steam train: And to see the sea at Aberystwyth: If you look at the titles I give photos on Flickr, you might notice that just recently I have been…

Am being hammered on comment spam at the moment. There seem to be 10 or more every hour. Fortunatley WordPress is pretty good at holding them up so they don’t get posted on the site. Some of them are pretty…

With the Google Toolbar for Firefox installed, I never use the little search box built into the browser on the right of the address bar. But since I had a play around, I found that by visiting here, I could…

Looks like some sort of announcement will be imminent. An online office suite is a very smart move by Google – whilst it couldn’t be as fully featured as the current version of OpenOffice.org, let alone MS Office, for the…

Reporters Without Borders have a handbook downloadable or viewable on their website on blogging aimed at political dissidents and the like, offering advice on staying anonymous along with the usual stuff: Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and…

The three of us went for a trip to Ironbridge, near Telford, with my parents a couple of weekends ago, and a fun time was had by all. More photos on my flickr page.

My quietness of late is largely down to the massive amount of work I have been putting into Palimpsest, head over there and take a look for yourself. Basically, the old phpBB forum software just wasn’t up to the job.…

Charlene Li: More on Yahoo! Mail Death to Bad Powerpoint GimpShop: The GIMP made up to look like PhotoShop – Mac only at present

We have got a kitten! She is called Purdy. Here she is with her friend Cranky.

This is pretty remarkable: before and after aerial photos of New Orleans, from MSNBC. Also, Google provide a Katrina specific websearch, including searching for missing people.

Have been so crap of late I thought I ought to bung up a bumper load of links today! Daily Telegraph: Profile of Steve Ballmer Google: Blog Search Search Engine Watch: Roundup Of Google Blog Search Commentary The Register: UK…