Slowly organising all of my old photos on Flickr. I’ve just created a photo set for a crisps walk we did in November 2002 around the highwalks of the City of London. Must be time for another crisps walk. I suspect I volunteered to organise one…
Author: Dave Cross
Suspicious Behaviour on the Tube
Today’s Guardian has an interesting account by David Mery of the day he was arrested by the metropolitan police for acting suspiciously on the tube. This took place the day after the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in Stockwell station. Mery has a web page where he is keeping a record of the incident… Continue reading Suspicious Behaviour on the Tube
Giving Books Away
Interesting piece by Ian McEwan about what happened when he tried to give away books to strangers in a park near his house. Every young woman we approached – in central London practically everyone seems young – was eager and grateful to take a book. Some riffled through the pile murmuring, “Read that, read that,… Continue reading Giving Books Away
Politicians’ Families
Two nicely contrasting stories in today’s papers about members of politicians’ families. Firstly, theguardian has used the freedom of information act to get lots of good dirt on how Mark Thatcher abused the fact that his mother was Prime Minister. This is, of course, exactly how the freedom of information act should be used. And… Continue reading Politicians’ Families
Installing Windows XP
One day I’ll learn that I should have nothing to do with any version of Windows. It always ends with me swearing at hardware. As mentioned before, I’ve got a new Dell PC. Which frees up the old one to go off to university with my stepdaughter. Neither of my PCs have Windows installed, but… Continue reading Installing Windows XP
Badger
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
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