An online notebook
Had a pretty good drive to work this morning – right up until I reached Henley. Between there and Warwick, I and about 30 others were trapped behind some numpty doing 40 in a 60 the whole way. Meant I missed out on one of the decent parking spaces and so I will be a … Keep reading
Interesting article in today’s Guardian Online supplement: Just when the government badly needs to show its competence at running large IT-based projects, along comes another wave of bad news. On Tuesday, parliamentary questions revealed that the cost of running Inland Revenue tax credits has risen tenfold over four years. Also this week, an influential committee … Keep reading
John Self at Palimpsest has already got on the bandwagon for the latest Sean Wright opus, the superbly titled Wicked or What? See his initial pre-publication posting here. The notoriously sane Jesse Jameson blog also covers this exciting release.
I have been playing around with Outlook 2003 in an attempt to get all my email addresses sorted out so that I regularly check them all. Previous attempts to use Thunderbird have failed as I found the way it handles multiple email address clumsy and confusing. I use Gmail for most of my personal email … Keep reading
LA Times ‘wikitorial’ gives editors red faces This is quite funny, and serves as a warning to any organisation jumping in feet first to a new technology without fully considering the likely implications. It was the boldest of innovations. A chance for the mainstream media to strike back against the upstarts of the online world. … Keep reading