Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Thursday, 10 November, 2005
Tuesday, 8 November, 2005
Chesterblogs
I have a job interview on Friday, for a job in Scrutiny at Chester City Council. Am quite confident and am looking forward to the idea of getting back into Scrutiny.
Browsing the Council’s website, it would appear that some of their councillors are blogging. Excellent!
Pitfalls of using Microsoft Word
Great post from John Naughton.
The United Nations have released a Word file which, in the meta data and changes tracking, reveals some pretty embarassing edits…
When will people learn to stop using MS file formats to distribute material?
Sunday, 6 November, 2005
Remember, remember
Had a jolly time at the bonfire and fireworks party last night.
I guess a relevant link to push here would be Guy Fawkes’ blog – a great one for UK parliamentary rumour and gossip.
Saturday, 5 November, 2005
Rick’s Blog
Rick Green is blogging again after a brief hiatus, and it’s well worth heading over there. He doesn’t just focus on one issue, but a whole range of them – almost all of which are new to me. It’s a real eye opener.
Like this one: he’s reading the whole of the 1960 edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica – only the ‘F’ volume is missing. Great stuff!
Anyway, he’s in the process of making some changes to the layout of his site, trying to make it more personal. Why not head over there and let him know what you make of it all?
‘Good Stuff’
I have started a new category, called Good Stuff.
It’s basically just a tag I can apply to longer posts that I take a bit longer over than normal. I’m going to try and do one a week from now on.
Links 5/11/05
- Woman auctions home – and herself
- BBC: Firefox share 11.5%
- History on his side: An interview with Robert Conquest
- KickRSS: takes multiple feeds and creates one feed for the lot. Could be very useful
- Phil Bradley’s blog moves to Typepad, and he creates a blog for his I Want To… page
- RawSugar – the answer to my bookmarking problems? I’ll give it a go.
That will do for now. I have a bonfire and firework party to attend.
The problem with MyPimp, Bookmarking update
Have started to use MyPimp as I need a calendar and it makes sense to have one online. The contacts bit might be useful too.
However, there is a big problem with it at the moment and that is that it only supports american date formats, i.e. today on MyPimp is 11/5/05, wheras my brain thinks it is 5/11/05. I didn’t think this would be that much of an issue, but it genuinely is very annoying and I can’t see myself using it until that is sorted.
On the bookmarking front, there’s just no way I can do it. I know I only set myself the challenge to record my site visits for one weekend, but I am already bored. It just ain’t for me…