The amount of junk mail and leaflets we get through our door is ridiculous. We often get five or six separate people pushing unwanted leaflets through our letterbox each day. I can tell that I’m not the only person on the road who is getting annoyed by this. A few houses have recently put signs… Continue reading No Hawkers No Circulars
Author: Dave Cross
The Sun Does RSS
I’ve just noticed that The Sun has started providing RSS feeds. So now it’s possible to get even more racist, sexist and homophobic bile delivered direct to your RSS reader. Interesting to read how they try to explain the concept of RSS in words of one syllable for the benefit of their readers. I’l get… Continue reading The Sun Does RSS
Shopping at PC World
I’ve been looking for a new laptop. I’ve had my current one for about five years and it’s looking a bit long in the tooth. It struggles to keep up with the demands of any newish operating system. I’m currently working near the Moorgate branch of PC World so I decided to go in there… Continue reading Shopping at PC World
Balham Photos
I’m subscribed to an RSS feed which shows me any new photos on Flickr that are tagged with balham. Mostly I just get too many photos of people getting pissed at various parties, but occasionally it throws up real treasures. This photo appeared a few days ago, along with a few similar ones. And I’ve… Continue reading Balham Photos
Reasons Not To Use Flash
It’s been a while since I posted one of my “basic guide to the internet” articles (sorry, I’ve been a bit busy – new job and all that), but whilst you’re waiting for the next one here’s a good article by Nik about why you shouldn’t implement a web site purely in Flash. I think… Continue reading Reasons Not To Use Flash
Steve Jones at the Royal Academy
I found a couple of reports of this week’s evolution lecture. Firstly a write-up from a blogger who was lucky enough to get in and secondly a review at The Register. The Register also gives a link to a statement issued by the Royal Society about evolution, creationism and intelligent design. Science has proved enormously… Continue reading Steve Jones at the Royal Academy
Faith Schools
To celebrate easter, Comment is Free gives you both sides of the faith schools argument today. So you get Polly Toynbee talking sense: But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches’ bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government – yes, a Labour government – is… Continue reading Faith Schools
DRM is Killing Music
Well, at least, it is according to the keyboard player of Counting Crows: The public should support all “digital rights management software” because, in the end, it means that more movies will be produced, and they will be of better quality. Copy protection is fair and it’s right and it’s good for art, for artists… Continue reading DRM is Killing Music
Filtering Spam
A few months ago I changed the way my email server works. Instead of using POP3 to download the mail and then filtering it on the client side using procmail, I configured the system to filter the mail on the server side so that I could read mail using IMAP. At some point during that… Continue reading Filtering Spam
Space Anniversaries
It’s a good day for space anniversaries. On April 12th 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. Twenty years later Columbia took off on the first space shuttle flight.