Interesting post here on using a gmail (or indeed any free webmail account) as a journal or note-taking system. The great thing about using Gmail is of course the labels which means you can organise your notes easily. I might…

I have just invested in this: Which I saw in Waterstones, strangely without a UK price on the back. It turned out it was £8.99. My interest was first sparked by this article in the Guardian, which made it sound…

Nice article on RSS, aimed at journalists, but pretty good for anyone wanting a plain English guide.

I’m going to try and blog more about the books I am reading at the time, my thoughts and stuff as I am going through them. This will be especially true when I embark upon Ulysees, which will need plenty…

I found A Prayer for Owen Meany this morning, thank God. Wedged between two bookcases. Good job I didn’t buy another copy yesterday! Instead, I did get three books: Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Any Human Heart – William Boyd The…

Article on IE blog here.

Interesting, well written and very depressing article about Forest on Soccernet. Tottenham Hotspur versus Nottingham Forest is a fixture of historic significance. In 1991, it was the FA Cup final, a match remembered for Paul Gascoigne’s self-destructive tackling. But for…

Robert Scoble blogs about Onfolio 2.0. Looks like I am going to have to look at this news aggregator which integrates with Firefox. Look very interesting. Nice screenshot here.

…is now available for download. A job to be left for the weekend, I think. An impresive new wiki has been built to house the documentation, using the Mediawiki engine.

A terrible thing has happened. I rushed home this evening to finish off the last few pages of A Prayer for Owen Meany, only to find that it has gone! Vanished! I cannot find it anywhere! I am appalled, aghast…

An interview with some top WordPress guys on version 1.5 which is hopefully imminent.

tesco_VCard Originally uploaded by theclosedcircle. amner on Palimpsest emailed me this. How sweet and generous of him!

The cover of the Independant was rather amusing on Friday: edit: have just thought, wouldn’t it be good if paper front pages were always like this? It would be much easier to decide whether or not to buy the thing…

Interesting interview with John Naughton on his blog.

Great piece from The Times on Arthur Miller, written by Erica Wagner. Thanks to John Naughton for the link. Why the 20th century was the century of Arthur Miller His dramatisation of the 17th-century Salem witch trials has continuing resonances…

What a terrible shame. ABC News: Playwright Arthur Miller Dies

Transcript of a talk by my favourite living novelist on (one of) my favourite dead novelist(s). Here.

Roy Keane has confirmed that he’ll be retiring when his contract runs out in 18 months’ time. Obviously, as a Forest fan, I’ve followed Keane’s career over the years, and I have to say I have never felt much antipathy…

Well, my trial has finished on FeedDemon, and at the moment I’ve decided not to go ahead and cough up, mainly for one very good reason: BlogLines, which suits me better because it is more portable. If I had a…

Another great column today from Bob Cringely, this time on the subject of the resignation/firing of Carly Fiorina as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Usually I come up with my own column topics, but sometimes readers simply demand that I write about…