Recently I’ve been getting more and more annoyed with people who don’t know the difference between the “reply” and “reply all” buttons in their email programs. You get an email from a friend that goes to a group of people. Perhaps it’s about arranging to meet up for a drink. You hit “reply all” and… Continue reading Replying To Email
Author: Dave Cross
Mozart For Free
Oh look. Following in the footsteps of the BBC’s Beethoven experiment from last year, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation is making nine Mozart symphonies available for free download starting on January 27th. I got the information from Jon Lund, but here’s the original announcement (in Danish).
Film Reviews
I’ve seen quite a few films over the weekend. So let’s pretend that you’re interested in my opinions of them and give you some reviews. Batman Begins I still love buying and reading superhero comics. But it’s been some time since I saw a really satisfying film based on a comicbook hero. This wasn’t very… Continue reading Film Reviews
Music Downloads
Looking back over the music that I’ve bought over the last couple of years I see that I’ve bought a lot of CDs that replace albums that I have already bought once on either vinyl or cassette. I’ve bought very little new music recently. This year I want that to change. I want to investigate… Continue reading Music Downloads
Book Review: Web Site Measurement Hacks
I liked it.
The Root of All Evil?
I’ve just watched the first part of Richard Dawkin’s The Root of all Evil? which I videoed earlier in the week. And it was great. Dawkins is, of course, a well-known atheist. But when given an hour of prime-time television by Channel Four he really didn’t pull any punches. He starts by describing the “process… Continue reading The Root of All Evil?
Internet Mob Mentality
An interesting example of the mob mentality that is becoming more prevalent on certain parts of the internet (and, indeed, in real life). Yesterday Digg published a story claiming that O’Reilly editor Steve Mallett had “stolen” the Digg’s CSS definitions for his own sites. The response from Digg’s readership was immediate, nasty and, ultimately, completely… Continue reading Internet Mob Mentality
Guardian Unlimited Greasemonkey Scripts
One interesting use of Greasemonkey is to improve web sites that you don’t like the look of. This is useful feedback to the owners of the sites that are being “improved”. With that in mind, I noticed a couple of Greasemonkey scripts that are for use on Guardian Unlimited. Guardian Title Goodifier reorders the parts… Continue reading Guardian Unlimited Greasemonkey Scripts
UK Newspaper RSS Feeds
I’ve made a start on building a directory of all of the RSS feeds available from UK national newspapers. It’s online at dave.org.uk/newsfeeds. If I’ve missed anything then please let me know. Also, if anyone can work out why my Javascript filtering code doesn’t seem to work on IE, then I’d love to know what’s… Continue reading UK Newspaper RSS Feeds
The Times RSS Feeds
Looks like The Times have completely reorganised their RSS feeds. The old ‘one size fits all’ feed is dead and has been replaced by a number of individual feeds (including a some that come from weblogs). The full list (together with a brief explanation of RSS and all the licence terms) are here At some… Continue reading The Times RSS Feeds