Glypho appears to be a site offering collective authorship. It looks quite interesting, but at a guess I would say the quality of writing is probaby variable…

Horrible! From Guardian Technology:

“Prosecutors claim a Mac specialist on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: “neck snap break” and “hold” before she was killed. Robert Petrick, who is defending himself in Durham, NC, cross examined a computer forensics expert this week. The expert testified about digital footprints he said the state discovered on several hard drives in Petrick’s home,” reports TechWeb.

“Prosecutors claimed that Petrick, who stands out in his Christian North Carolina community as a self-professed Pagan, left behind a trail of digital evidence including a visit to a site called bloodfest666. Investigators are also focusing e-mails to women they said Petrick was having affairs with and a download of a document entitled ’22 ways to kill a man with your bare hands’.”

Note: “a lawyer standing by for Petrick said he believes the evidence was all culled from the hard drives and he has no information that Google participated in the investigation.”

From Guido Fawkes’ blog.

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!

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?

• With enough eyeballs, all bugs are invisible
• Pitiful spectacle of an old DOS trying to do new tricks

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.

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?

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.

• 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.