Sideways

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…

WordPress 1.5

…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.

Keane to retire in 2006

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…

New Cringely Column

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…

Been doing a fair amount of reading today about organisation and suchlike, both personally and for at work. Here’s some of the stuff I have come across. Moleskine notebooks – these seem cool, if pricey. Loads of links about them…

John Sutherland

As John Self rightly pointed out in an earlier comment, John Sutherland writes well for The Guardian on books, despite being an apparently controversial choice for Chair of the Booker panel this year. Here’s his article in today’s paper. There…