This years EuroOSCON has been announced. It’s on the 18th – 21st September in Brussels. Last year’s conference was great, so I hope to be there again. Oh, and there seems to be another similar conference taking place in the US in July.
Tag: tech
iRiver/iPod/iAudio
It’s over six months since I got my iRiver H140 and I’m very happy with it. Unfortunately I can no longer recommend it to new buyers as it’s no longer available and I’m told that the replacement model (the H340) isn’t as good. But this afternoon someone mentioned the iAudio X5 to me. It has… Continue reading iRiver/iPod/iAudio
Maps and Time
Dan Hill has a brilliant idea – adding a time slider to Google Earth so that you can trace the development of a map through time. This has to happen. Only possible downside would be the amount of time I’d spend exploring old maps.
Google Web Survey
See, this is a good example of what you can do if you’re parsing every page you can find on the web. Google has been examining the HTML used in the pages that it trawls and has published its findings. The results are interesting but not altogether surprising. The executive summary seems to be “most… Continue reading Google Web Survey
Lineak
(Non-geeks will probably want to ignore this entry) If you buy a keyboard these days, chances are that it will have a number of extra keys on it. Ones for opening your email application or your web browser or for controlling the CD player. If you’re using Windows then your system probably came pre-configured to… Continue reading Lineak
Music Downloads
Looking back over the music that I’ve bought over the last couple of years I see that I’ve bought a lot of CDs that replace albums that I have already bought once on either vinyl or cassette. I’ve bought very little new music recently. This year I want that to change. I want to investigate… Continue reading Music Downloads
Guardian Unlimited Greasemonkey Scripts
One interesting use of Greasemonkey is to improve web sites that you don’t like the look of. This is useful feedback to the owners of the sites that are being “improved”. With that in mind, I noticed a couple of Greasemonkey scripts that are for use on Guardian Unlimited. Guardian Title Goodifier reorders the parts… Continue reading Guardian Unlimited Greasemonkey Scripts
UK Newspaper RSS Feeds
I’ve made a start on building a directory of all of the RSS feeds available from UK national newspapers. It’s online at dave.org.uk/newsfeeds. If I’ve missed anything then please let me know. Also, if anyone can work out why my Javascript filtering code doesn’t seem to work on IE, then I’d love to know what’s… Continue reading UK Newspaper RSS Feeds
The Times RSS Feeds
Looks like The Times have completely reorganised their RSS feeds. The old ‘one size fits all’ feed is dead and has been replaced by a number of individual feeds (including a some that come from weblogs). The full list (together with a brief explanation of RSS and all the licence terms) are here At some… Continue reading The Times RSS Feeds
Book Review: XML Hacks
Another book review. This time it’s XML Hacks. O’Reilly’s Hacks books are great and this one is no exception.