I have been playing around with various content management systems recently, and found most of them to be pretty unsatisfactory. I basically wanted a solution that could combine a blog type of news site with an integrated forum. I was…

I took my first steps with Linux this week. At the start of the week, I installed Ubuntu on my old Toshiba laptop. It installed beautifully, and ran very nicely. Very quick to boot up indeed. In fact, I really,…

I have installed Blogbar in the sidebar of this blog, which you can use to search the site. The theme I use, Contempt, dosn’t appear to have a search bar included, though doubtless I could conjure one up if I…

Looks like Qumana has been bought up by arranged a distribution deal with Lycos, if this URL is anything to go by. Nothing on the Qumana blog yet. Mark Evans has some detail. [tags]qumana, lycos[/tags]

Robert Scoble posts on the fun they are having over the pond with the fun being had early yesterday morning with the time and date – at two minutes and three seconds passed 1am in American format it appears as…

Eponym is a new hosted blog service, and a direct competitor with Blogger. It’s nice and easy to use, and it’s really quick to set up a new blog – like I did (check out that nice Slashdot-esque theme). My one…

As spotted by Google Blogoscoped, this is from a CSS comment on Microsoft’s website: /* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */ * html .StupidIEMarginHack { margin-right: 1px; }

There is a bit of a buzz around ajaxWrite, a new Web2.0 word processor, like Writely. Much of the buzz is around the fact that the guy reponsible for it is Michael Robertson who was previously behind Linspire, the user…

Well, starting up a new blog has certainly made it clear to me the steps that are needed to try and get things settled and moving quickly. 1. Install WordPress. Ok, so I am a WordPress guy, and most of…

Kiko is another online calendar service. It’s filled with lots of lovely little AJAXy tricks and generally looks lovely. One of the cool features include having a text box which allows you to quickly add appointments using a human readable syntax,…