Is there anyone still alive who remembers when Kate Bush last released an album? It seems she’ll be releasing a new one later this year. She makes the Blue Nile look positively industrious. I hope it’s worth the wait.
Author: Dave Cross
New Format Guardian
The Guardian has announced (free registration required) that it will relaunch in its new Berliner format from Monday 12th September. Recently I’ve got out of the habit of buying a paper every day, but I’ve bought one twice in the last week or so and it reminded me how much I enjoy reading the paper… Continue reading New Format Guardian
One Side Can Be Wrong
It’s tempting to quote huge swathes of Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne’s article from today’s Guardian as it does such a great job of debunking the idea that “intelligent design” should be taught in science classes. But I’ll resist and just give you a couple of the best paragraphs. Here’s one good one Intelligent design… Continue reading One Side Can Be Wrong
“Our Tsunami”
I see that some people in the US are describing the effects of Hurricane Katrina as “our tsunami“. Now I don’t want to minimise what has happened in New Orleans over the last few days in any way, but lets get some bloody proportion here. Look at the numbers. Current estimates of deaths caused by… Continue reading “Our Tsunami”
Hardware Catalogue
Based on a conversation in the pub last week, here’s a list of the kinds of computer hardware that geeks often own, rent or otherwise have access to. Listed (approximately in descending order of size. I don’t have all of these. Which do you own. Have I missed any? External web server – often a… Continue reading Hardware Catalogue
Gmail
I just noticed that the number of Gmail invitations that I’ve got to give away has doubled to 100. If you want an invitation and I know who you are, then just send me an email and I’ll fire one off to you.
Public Unaware of RSS
It’s good to see something like this every once in a while. It’s easy to sit there in a little geek cocoon and assume that everyone out there on the interweb is using all the same time-saving tools as you are. But as this article from The Register shows, that’s often not the case. It… Continue reading Public Unaware of RSS
American Dates
Why are American companies so determined to confuse the rest of the world with their illogical way of writing dates? Yesterday I got an email from register.com reminding me that one of my domains needed to be renewed. They said that the current registration expired on “12/07/2005”. “Bloody hell,” I thought, “that’s over a month… Continue reading American Dates
New Phone
My Orange contract expired last week so I was in the market for a new phone. I had my eye on a Nokia 6630 as the Orange web site said that I could get one for £30. But when I called Orange to arrange it thy said that it would actually cost me £150. This… Continue reading New Phone
A Levels
So my stepdaughter was just about to leave the house to go up to college to pick up her A level results when the post arrived. And it included a letter for her from UCAS. It contains confirmation of her university place. Which rather spoils the surprise of going off to college and picking up… Continue reading A Levels