An online notebook
An online notebook
Google have added a directory of possible services to their personal homepage, as announced on their official blog.
It provides a much wider variety of easy-to-add content than before, but doesn’t stop the homepage being a pretty static and dull affair compared to the likes of Protopage and Netvibes. You also have to be logged in to use it, meaning any searches you perform will be saved in the search history, which could be a little creepy.
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 criticism would be that the Control Panel page is a little cluttered – I think they should have ditched the top header, really.
But it seems quicker than Blogger, and is bound to be with fewer users, so for absolute beginners it’s worth a shot.
[tags]eponym[/tags]
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;
}
More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows.
Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.
A similar proportion do not comply with guidelines created to improve web access, it found.
In response, a government spokesman said the UK had been actively promoting better accessibility of sites.
[tags]web design, standards, government it[/tags]
Daveybot provides a great round up of his Firefox set-up. Have pinched a few of those extensions for myself.
[tags]firefox, extensions[/tags]
Apparently the blog run by David Miliband, the UK government’s “Minister of Communities and Local Government”, costs the taxpayer £6,000 – whether that was a one off payment or an ongoing annual fee it doesn’t say.
Clearly the government’s ability to wildly overspend on IT even stretches to the world of blogging – which is surely the easiest techy thing to do for free?
[tags]blogging, politics, miliband[/tags]