An online notebook
Flickr is brilliant. A really great service, easy to use and full of features. It’s basically a place to store digital photos online. You upload the ones you want and Flickr automatically makes them available in a few different web friendly sizes, so you don’t need to bother resizing them yourself. You can then make … Keep reading
Beach Huts at Wells Originally uploaded by theclosedcircle. Just testing posting pictures through Flickr. It seems to work pretty well!
Have been putting some more thought into my idea for a Scrutiny Best Practice booklet. Here’s a draft outline plan: Introduction Preparation, Participation, Partnership A Note on Structures Part One: Preparation Objectives and Outcomes Research Agendas and Reports The Meeting Post Meeting Part Two: Participation Scrutiny and Overview Members Backbench Members The Executive The Public … Keep reading
The Register reports that Microsoft are planning to stop providing updates to non-genuine versions of its Windows XP operating system as part of its anti-piracy campaign. I’m flagging this up not because I disagree – it seems quite reasonable, really – but because I wanted to download an update, using my (I should point out) … Keep reading
As John Self rightly pointed out in an earlier comment, John Sutherland writes well for The Guardian on books, despite being an apparently controversial choice for Chair of the Booker panel this year. Here’s his article in today’s paper. There was a sad news item last week about 130,00 penguins doomed to die because of … Keep reading