I spent the weekend staying with friends in a small Devon village. It’s nice to get away from the city every once in a while. One of the bonuses of the weekend was seeing my first real-life badger. Unfortunately it was dead, having been hit by a car. We did, however, get a good view… Continue reading Badger
Month: September 2005
Ajax vs Altas
It’s like some kind of battle of Greek (or is it Roman?) heroes. David Heinemeier Hansson is less than complimentary about Microsoft’s new Javascript framework, Atlas.
More is Less
Until recently I often used a website called TV Tome. This was the best place to go for information about TV programmes. It contained episode guides, cast lists and various other bits of trivia about all of your favourite programmes. Nice simple interface. A few ads, but nothing too intrusive. It’s not there now tho’.… Continue reading More is Less
Google Blogsearch
Either I’m missing the point, or Google’s new Blogsearch is missing the functionality that I’d use most – the ability to search for sites that link to a particular blog. I’m talking about something like Technorati’s blog search page or Bloglines’ citations service. Without this it really doesn’t seem to add much that I can’t… Continue reading Google Blogsearch
Popups Are Bad
I’m getting involved in a debate on the uk-netmarketing email list on the value (or otherwise) of web page popups. Another of the people in the discussion works for Eyeconomy who I’ve mentioned before. Like all people I’ve discussed it with, I hate unrequested popups on web pages. When one appears I close it down… Continue reading Popups Are Bad
Doonesbury
(I know I said the last post would be the final one on the new Guardian – it seems I lied, but this is important stuff) One of the things that provoked the loudest complaints about the Berliner Guardian (maybe I should just start calling it theguardian) was the removal of Doonesbury. There were some… Continue reading Doonesbury
More Guardian
A couple of final points about the Guardian redesign before I start looking for something different to write about. Firstly, circulation levels. One of the driving forces behind this redesign is (I assume) the Guardian‘s falling circulation figures over the last year. I realise that this is purely anecdotal evidence, but over the two days… Continue reading More Guardian
Berliner Review
In general, I think that the new format Guardian looks fabulous. It was, by far, the most interesting looking paper in the newsagent’s this morning. The few niggles I mention below are only very minor and I fully expect to not be noticing them at all in a month’s time. I’m not sold on the… Continue reading Berliner Review
Guardian Digital Edition
And while I’m talking about the new Guardian (face it, that’s all I’m going to talk about today) it’s worth pointing out that the digital edition is free for the next two weeks (until Sept 26th). This is partly to let people have a closer look at the new format and partly because the move… Continue reading Guardian Digital Edition
“email” vs “emails”
Obviously I’ve got my copy of the new Guardian and I’ll have more to say about it later on. But I just wanted to raise a point about the letters page. They’ve renamed it “Letters and Emails”. Now that makes sense on one level as I assume that a large proportion of the letters aren’t… Continue reading “email” vs “emails”