Apologies for the total lack of new updates over the last week – have been working on another project which has been taking up an awful lot of time. Once it is set up though, it will be all systems…

Haven’t updated recently, apologies. Here’s a few links I have been reading. Robert X Cringely: 08/25/05: Has Google Peaked? John Naughton: Google grows up… John Naughton’s Observer Column on Google Talk Olivier Travers: The Microsoft Office I Really Want BusinessWeek:…

…I will mostly be reading about the Trent Bridge test match. The most entertaining way to follow it in the office is by reading the Guardian’s over-by-over commentary, which can be accessed from their Ashes page here.

Google have released their IM client, Google Talk. But not only is it an IM client, but you can also use it to phone other Google Talk users – for free! Won’t get to have a play until I get…

Having been playing and thinking about the new Google Desktop Search, and specifically its new sidebar form, I have the following few thoughts. Firstly, like all Google innovations, it’s US only at the moment, content wise. This means that the…

Google Sidebar is part of the new version 2 of Desktop Search. It works pretty much like Desktop Sidebar, but obviously with all Google services involved. It features an email preview pane, which will pick up your Gmail, if you…

Shel Israel: 5 Reasons to Worry about Google John Naughton: Computers and masochism – links to today’s Observer column I, Cringely: Patently Absurd Kottke: So long, Technorati 43 Folders: Life inside one big text file

Well, the trip was a great success – we had a lovely time and, most importantly, she said YES! Here’s a couple of photos – more on Flickr.

BBC: Cheap laptops provoke Mac mayhem Met chief tried to stop shooting inquiry Guardian Online: Apple hack Guardian Online: Back to the fold PC World: Reading (and Writing) Blogs

The Register: Cockney suits abuse f**king email Guardian Online: Utter Rubbish Joho the Blog: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Infocom Game Business2Blog: Outsourcing Blogs (and Splogs) to China Guardian Football: Scholes makes it easier for Eriksson

Great collection of hints and tips for Gmail users here, as linked to yesterday by John Naughton.

As reported in The Guardian: I’ve never read a book, says Posh. I would have thought that should anyone have actually wasted their time considering this issue, they would have assumed that was the case anyway? Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty and Bookish…

Will start having a post with various links I have come across which don’t necessarily need any further comment from me. Rather than have a link per post, I will save them up during the day and then post when…

The Blogger Buzz blog announces a new tool for Blogger – an extension for MS Word that allows you to write and post entries direct from the word processor. Cool. It’s been imaginatively called Blogger for Word.

Saw this on Slashdot: An article over at BoingBoing discusses what appears to be a viral marketing ploy appearing in a Wikipedia entry. Quote: “Someone has apparently abused collaborative reference site Wikipedia in a viral marketing campaign for a BBC…

Just as I upgrade WordPress, another new version comes along!

Had a lovely trip to Ellesmere this afternoon for bike rides and a picnic. Took a couple of photos – some of which are over on my Flickr page.  

My blogroll has always been accessed via BlogLines, though it has recently fallen behind since I started using FeedDemon. So, to get things updated quickly, I exported my FeedDemon list of blogs into an OPML file, which I then imported…

This afternoon, I ‘designed’ a quite frankly rubbish link icon for this blog, in the style of the little rectangles one sees on many blogs, including this one. Here it is: The font is Jason Kottke’s Silkscreen, perfect for this…

Just noticed from the phpBB site that version 2.0.17 has been released. Hopefully this will solve some of the security problems we have been having over on Palimpsest, where various web robots have been brining the site to a standstill,…