An online notebook
Am being hammered on comment spam at the moment. There seem to be 10 or more every hour.
Fortunatley WordPress is pretty good at holding them up so they don’t get posted on the site. Some of them are pretty amusing, or just totally weird. How about this:
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With the Google Toolbar for Firefox installed, I never use the little search box built into the browser on the right of the address bar.
But since I had a play around, I found that by visiting here, I could search Wikipedia straight from Firefox. I didn’t realise how useful this was until this morning when I have used it about a dozen times.
Looks like some sort of announcement will be imminent.
An online office suite is a very smart move by Google – whilst it couldn’t be as fully featured as the current version of OpenOffice.org, let alone MS Office, for the majority of users what would be on offer would be more than enough.
Reporters Without Borders have a handbook downloadable or viewable on their website on blogging aimed at political dissidents and the like, offering advice on staying anonymous along with the usual stuff:
Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.
Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
The three of us went for a trip to Ironbridge, near Telford, with my parents a couple of weekends ago, and a fun time was had by all.
More photos on my flickr page.