There are rumours that Tony Blair might be about to face his Anthony Meyer moment. This could get interesting.
Firefox vs Internet Explorer
A nice rant by Kate Bevan in today’s Guardian technology supplement. She’s fed up of going into corporate clients’ offices and finding that Internet Explorer is the only browser available. Firefox has been available and stable for 18 months. Why do corporate IT departments still insist on forcing IE onto their users? So being dumped… Continue reading Firefox vs Internet Explorer
Searching Online Newpapers
Over the last couple of weeks, Martin Belam has been reviewing the search functionality on UK newpaper web sites. He has now published his conclusions. The article also links to detailed individual entries on each paper surveyed. Some of his findings are quite surprising. Papers who aren’t seen as particularly web-savvy did well in some… Continue reading Searching Online Newpapers
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Syd Barrett has died. (I bet I’m not the only person to use that title for this story)
Digital Video Recorder
I suspect that it’s about time I dragged myself up to date and bought a digital video recorder. My first thought is to buy a new PC and set up MythTV on it. But it’ll cost quite a lot to get a quiet enough PC with a large enough hard disk, and it looks like… Continue reading Digital Video Recorder
“Interest Free” Credit Cards
Over the last few months I’ve been shuffling a bit of credit card debt around in order to avoid paying interest on it. If you’ve ever tried this, then you’ll know the first rule of credit card shuffling. It’s “never buy anything else with a card that has an interest free balance on it”. The… Continue reading “Interest Free” Credit Cards
The United States of Total Paranoia
You need a permit to do everything in America. You even need a passport to buy a drink. But interestingly you don’t need one if you wish to rent some guns and some bullets. I needed a 50 cal (very big) machinegun. “No problem,” said the man at the shop. “But could you just sign… Continue reading The United States of Total Paranoia
Real DJs Code Live
This is very cool. An article in Wired features a member of london.pm Some DJs spin vinyl or twiddle fader knobs. Others write subroutines in C++. A new brand of music maestro is turning programming into performance, eschewing turntables for a compiler and a mind for syntax structure. “Livecoding” practitioners improvise using Perl or homemade… Continue reading Real DJs Code Live
Here We Go Again
Remember last year when Tony Blair was defeated on plans to increase the time that suspects could be help without trial? He wanted 90 days but a compromise which “only” doubled the time to 28 days won the vote. Well, it looks like the Home Affairs Committee have decided to re-open that particular can of… Continue reading Here We Go Again
On Being Aggregated
Blog aggregators are the latest thing. Well, ok, they aren’t really the latest thing – but they’re starting to become popular. And tools like Plagger make it easy to set up an aggregator. Actually, that’s not true either as the documentation for Plagger is shocking and you often end up reading the source code. But… Continue reading On Being Aggregated