Author Archives: Leigh

I finished my exams on Saturday. That’s right, with a paper at 9:00 on a weekend. Following my Sunday afternoon off, I’ve been launched straight into project work, having spent nine hours in the department today. Somehow I thought that finishing exams would be quite nice, and that I’d be able to relax. Not so, […]

Some inane chatter to celebrate my return… I just noticed today that I’m currently reading 50 different blog feeds. In fairness, I must confess that one of these is a test for my new CUGCR website, but I still think I’m doing quite well.

Down at the bottom of the sidebar I’ve added a whole heap of buttons to let you subscribe. If you’re an existing user of Yahoo! or Gmail then it’s a doddle. Even if you aren’t click one of the buttons, and it’ll show you the feed experience you could be having. Blimey, I sound like […]

Apparently, Yahoo! have been getting themselves into all sorts of shady dealings with spyware vendors. And now they’re being sued, by the chap who wrote the post behind the first link.

Now I’ll admit I haven’t always given Firefox a good press. But sometimes I think they don’t set themselves up in the nicest way. The religious fervour of Firefox fans goes to the levels of extremism. Yes, maybe you like it. But it’s a web browser. Get a life. I had mixed feelings, therefore, reading […]

Somebody today said to me in the pub that he didn’t believe that I read every blog in my sidebar. So I thought I ought to show how it’s done. Here is a screenshot of Bloglines which I use to subscribe to RSS feeds: In the left-hand pane is a list of every blog I […]

This post at Harry’s Place discusses a feature in the independent giving credence to the old conspiracy theory that “The Jews control the world.” The theory itself, of course, is self-evidently nonsense (if it were true, the Palestinians would have been nuked long ago). What is disappointing for me is that the Independent has fallen […]

I’ve finally installed it. It’s shiny. I like. I lost the links toolbar for a while, but I’ve found it now. Perhaps the most exciting thing was that it told me my security settings weren’t tight enough, but rather than just leave it there, it told me which specific setting was wrong (I was permitting […]

A while ago, I said (while discussing browser extensions for Internet Explorer): There’s extensive information about how to go about coding these yourself. The only thing that’s missing seems to be a real drive to produce these things. The only ones I’ve seen have tended to be produced by big companies, e.g. MSN, Google, Yahoo […]

… those who can’t, teach. I was thinking about this today while watching a BSM driving instructor trying to park. Suffice it to say, it wasn’t impressive. Why do people allow themselves to be taught by monkeys?

In a sense I feel that this ought to be somehow exciting, and that I should have something really important to say. Unfortunately, I don’t, so I’ll just link to videos of people putting CDs in a microwave.

…Animal Farm was once banned in the US, according to this list. How ironic that a veiled satire of Stalinism was banned due to Communist overtones. It’s also worth reading the original preface, which was cut from many versions of the book. It’s often quoted by those discussing freedom of the press. The discussion of […]

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a committed Windows user. I like the way I can mess with it and almost think I know what I’m doing. But this site has got me confused. It seems official enough. It’s a US site from the .gov.uk domain. It’s got a sensible logo. But it says this: […]

This webpage is a rather exciting read. We have all seen these banners before or heard people say “Firefox is Faster, Firefox has Lower Requirements, Firefox is Secure, Firefox defends me from all Spyware, etc.” How misleading is it? Read on. There’s some great stuff in here, and it’s all well thought-out, well reasoned, and […]

The Euston Manifesto throws in a paragraph about Open-Source Software. As part of the free exchange of ideas and in the interests of encouraging joint intellectual endeavour, we support the open development of software and other creative works and oppose the patenting of genes, algorithms and facts of nature. We oppose the retrospective extension of […]

In this New Statesman Article, Norm Geras and Nick Cohen explain the history behind a document which has become known as “The Euston Manifesto.” The Manifesto itself can be downloaded from here [PDF] or read on Norm’s Blog. I think I agree with most of it. Please read the whole thing.

This is the third time now in as many days I’ve had an error message on the internet. This time, while trying to comment on Oliver’s Blog, I got the error message: Space Not AvailableThe MSN Spaces service is being upgraded and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. For the record, the comment I […]

This chap’s given it up. I’m still trying to find how I got to his site, however, as I never subscribed to it. I downloaded the feed for another site and got both of them. Oh well, we’ll see what happens. Maybe WordPress will sort themselves out.

Over at Chronotron, it’s Web 2.0 Week. All through the week (9th – 16th), Chrono Tron’s posts will be fully dedicated to Web 2.0, it’s various aspects and loads more to keep you interested. I’m going to be following it. Will you?

This chap has finally gone totally bonkers. Here’s a sample: Acknowledge the math below or go to hell.4 Day Cube disproves 1 Day God.[…]4 Day math condemns 1 Day fools.These 4 absolute simultaneous days PROVES the1 day god, 1day academia, 1 day religion and the1 day media to be erroneous, fictitious and evil lies.Education equates […]