Been I while since I did anything really geeky in my spare time so this weekend (whilst watching the UKTV repeats of last year’s Doctor Who) I went back to a project that I was thinking about a few months ago. I’ve built Balham Blogs. It’s a site that aggregates RSS feeds that have some… Continue reading Balham Blogs
Category: blogging
MySun
Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace last year as part of his drive to make more effective use of the internet. According to the Guardian, the first results of this purchase will be the use of MySpace technology on the Sun‘s web site to create a “MySun” network. The plan, in its early stages, would allow readers… Continue reading MySun
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
Mentioned in Dispatches
Oh look. Evidence that people are actually reading this site. A piece from last week was mentioned in the latest Britblog Roundup.
Software Upgrade
Last night I upgraded this site so it’s now running on Movable Type version 3.2. Everything seemed to go fine, but if you see anything weird on the site over the next couple of weeks please let me know.
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
Political Weblogs
Tim Ireland launches the Political Weblog Project where he aims to get as many elected representatives as possible using weblogs to encourage two-way communication with the people they represent. I think this is a great idea. And not just because he has nice things to say about my own political weblog.
Blogging the Bombs
It’s a couple of days on, so let’s step back and take a look at what happened on Thursday. I’m still trying to articulate exactly how I feel about it all so let’s leave that for another post and instead look at more practical matters. Basically, it seems to me that Thursday 7th July 2005… Continue reading Blogging the Bombs
An Unexpected Party
A few weeks ago I wrote an entry here about my feelings of on Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The entry concentrated on the differences between the film and the original book. I expected that a few of my friends would read the item and maybe a couple of them would post comments.… Continue reading An Unexpected Party
The Other Place
Actually, I already have another blog. My journal over at use.perl. I guess I’ll keep that for techy, Perl stuff and put more random stuff here. Or something.