Argh. They’ve done it again. A truth which has the downside of keeping many true artists poor in garrets and many false ones rich in mansions was universally acknowledged yesterday. (Pride, prejudice and happiness: readers choose favourite endings – Guardian) Is it too much to ask that just once a journalist can write an article… Continue reading Universally Acknowledging Truths
Author: Dave Cross
Working At Goohoo!
So Lloyd is leaving Guardian Unlimited to go back to Yahoo!. From what I’ve seen over the last few months, I predict that it’ll only be about another eighteen months before everyone in the web industry will be working for either Google or Yahoo!
O’Reilly Network
Those fine people at O’Reilly Media (publishers of such excellent books as Perl Template Toolkit) have offered me the chance to write on one of their blogs. I’m now a contributor to their OnLAMP blog and you’ll be able to see all of my entries here. Not quite sure what I’ll be covering over there,… Continue reading O’Reilly Network
Copyright vs The Holy Grail
I really don’t understand why the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail are suing Dan Brown for using their ideas. Surely if you have a good idea then you’e happy if other people publicise it too. Maybe they just don’t like their work being associated with something quite as trashy as The… Continue reading Copyright vs The Holy Grail
Tony Blair – Protector of Liberties
According to Tony Blair writing in yesterday’s Observer he doesn’t destroy liberties, he protects them. The whole article is riddled with half-truths and reinterpretations of history. Luckily enough Blairwatch have produced a point by point deconstruction of what Blair wrote.
Giving Software Away
An interesting story from Gervase Markham (who works for the Mozilla Foundation) which demonstrates that the concept of Open Source software is still confusing to a large proportion of the population. A little while ago, I received an e-mail from a lady in the Trading Standards department of a large northern town. They had encountered… Continue reading Giving Software Away
Metric Britain
The UK Metric Association (no, I’d never heard of them either) are using the 2012 Olympics as an excuse to call for the UK to convert its road signs to the metric system. If it happens (which it won’t) it would mean that we, at least, get something positive from the Olympics. The history of… Continue reading Metric Britain
Interviewing the Interviewer
This article contains some good advice about getting the most out of an interview. In particular it has some interesting sample questions for the “do you have any questions you’d like to ask me” section of the interview. How long does it take from the time someone identifies a need for a new piece of… Continue reading Interviewing the Interviewer
Leading
Ben is wrong. Some of us know what leading is. And I wish he’d stop dropping tantalising hints and just release the bloody thing :) (Does iWeb have to generate such crap URLs?)
Academics Fight Rise of Creationism at Universities
After what I wrote yesterday about the christian influence on education, there’s a good article in today’s Guardian about how creationism is on the rise in British universities. In the United States there is growing pressure to teach creationism or “intelligent design” in science classes, despite legal rulings against it. Now similar trends in this… Continue reading Academics Fight Rise of Creationism at Universities