Header Images

To brighten the place up a little bit, I have put in some new header graphics. There are four at the moment, and load up in a random order thanks to the WordPress god Matthew Mullenweg‘s dead simple PHP script.…

PHP-Fusion

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…

First Linux Steps

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,…

Blogbar

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…

Qumana/Lycos deal

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]

01:02:03 04/05/06

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

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…

Even Microsoft Hates IE

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; }

ajaxWrite

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…