It used to be simple to put the clocks back at the end of October. I’d just go round the house putting everything back by an hour. Now it’s more confusing. We have a number of clocks that deal with the time change themselves. So I have to work out which ones need changing. It’s… Continue reading GMT and NaNoWriMo
Month: October 2004
Tabloid Times
According to a story in today’s Guardian, The Times is planning to go tabloid-only within two weeks. A later story (warning: Media Guardian site requires registration) claims that it will be happening from Monday and there are a large number of advertising spots booked for this weekend which will inform readers. No-one else seems to… Continue reading Tabloid Times
Was Darwin Wrong?
No, of course he wasn’t. But the cover of the new National Geographic cruelly gives a second or two of hope to the religious fundamentalists. Actually it seems to be an article about how most people don’t understand the concept of a scientific theory. Nice piece about it here (which I was directed to by… Continue reading Was Darwin Wrong?
Stealing Bandwidth is Bad
Like many of us, my friend Dave has a number of photos on his web site. Recently he started to see a large number of requests for this photo. On further investigation he discovered that this forum was using it as a background image. Without asking permission and without taking the obvious step of taking… Continue reading Stealing Bandwidth is Bad
Radio Times
The Radio Times web site got a bit of a makeover a couple of days ago. It looks a lot nicer now and feels a bit faster. What it needs now is some nice RSS feeds. “What’s on now” or “On Channel 4 tonight” – things like that. And. of course, a web services API… Continue reading Radio Times
Open Source in Government
Michael Cross (no relation) reports on the announcement of a shift in the UK government’s attitudes to Open Source software. The Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC), set up to get better value from government procurements, will today announce that open source is a “viable desktop alternative for the majority of users” and that it… Continue reading Open Source in Government
A Local Site For Local People
According to a report from Netcraft it appears that Dubya’s campaign web site is refusing connections from servers outside of the US. I just tested it and they seem to be correct. From a machine in the UK I get a “connection refused” message. But from a machine in the US I can connect without… Continue reading A Local Site For Local People
John Peel RIP
This will be all over the blogsphere within hours I expect. I don’t know anyone who appreciates good music that didn’t spend their teenage years listening to Peel’s late night radio programmes. He was immensely influential. Tom Coates rounds up the news links so I don’t have to.
Wikipedia
Synchronicity at work. Yesterday I posted a comment on Simon Waldman’s blog which included a link to a Wikipedia article. Today the Guardian publishes an article about Wikipedia written by Simon. It’s an interesting article, it mentions Wikipedia’s roots in the Open Source movement tho’ it stops shop of discussing the whole wiki phenomenon. Simon… Continue reading Wikipedia
Feedburner
If you’re reading this thru some kind of RSS aggregator thing (and if you don’t know what that means then you almost certainly aren’t) then you might be interested switching to my new feed from FeedBurner. It combines elements from davblog, my Flickr photostream and my links page at del.icio.us. The address to use is… Continue reading Feedburner