Author Archives: Leigh

The story is here. Basically, this company will produce for you a “web pack” containing about 10,000 pages. There’s a couple of points to go with this. The article makes an estimate of the amount of information on the internet: As Husick explains: “Let’s say the HTML Web is 10 billion pages — it’s actually […]

Whenever a pressure group asks for an independent inquiry, it simply means that they want an appeal. The last inquiry didn’t produce a result they were happy with, so let’s have another one. This idea came up in a blog post which, unfortunately, I forget. But it’s clearly affected me, as now I take any […]

I’d just like to highlight this though: “Every item on my blogroll to the right is read.” That is, every blog I mention on the right hand column is read by me regularly. I read every post of each and every one of them. This is powered by Bloglines, which is lucky. I like having […]

I wasn’t planning on posting much… but this is great stuff: http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000890073633/ The picture: So, who wants a coke cooled by PC? I think I do. Probably the best case mod I’ve seen.

Apologies for the posting dropoff, which is likely to continue. Hopefully normal service will be resumed after my exams, which finish in about the second week of May. Until then things might be intermittent, I’m afraid.

There’s a lot of good points in this post from NHS Blog Doctor. The majority of consultants work hard, and work longer hours for the NHS than those for which they are contracted. The media may choose not to believe it. Alice Miles clearly does not believe it. Patricia Hewitt certainly did not believe it. […]

Some time ago I came across this page and this picture. Yesterday I decided to undertake an experiment. My favourite browser, Firefox, allows its users to add extensions. Currently 1102 extensions are available at Mozilla update. I decided to install 100 of the most popular extensions at the same time. Meanwhile, over at Coding Horror, […]

A year or two ago, the House of Bishops or the General Synod or somebody like that decided to implement a new set of rules for dealing with children withing the church. They drafted a document entitled “Protecting All God’s Children,” which can be found here. One of the most contentious issues is that it […]

The whole internet is full of absolute rubbish. I’ve hardly read anything sensible all day. This list of online hoaxes may help you to avoid them.

I’ve just discovered this blog, called mediawatchwatch. It’s quite good, and I intend to follow it for a bit. Going through the archives I found this post. Norwich vicar defends SpringerThe Rev Peter Nokes of St Peter Mancroft Church in Norwich has been standing up for Jerry Springer: The Opera. He told the Norwich Evening […]

I searched for Leigh Simpson on MSN Search, and look what I found. I’m not convinced that the search was working properly. If you want to create a similar search which doesn’t seem to work properly, go to http://www.msnsearchspoof.com/.

I’ve ranted before about the proliferation of image verification systems. In my case, I was ranting about the fact that Yahoo! was making me fill in a box when I sent an email. Luckily that’s declined, I get a verification box about every hundred messages or so, which seems fair enough. The new problem is […]

An argument in pictures…From NHS Blog Doctor

Something Awful presents some of the best internet hate mail I’ve seen in a long time. Cant do it? Oh, im not surprised, seeing as you are a zero-talent neanderthal who posesses the brains of a smashed eggshell dipped in acid resin. So next time you go to insult someone directly because they like a […]

What is Web 2.0? I’ve discussed a lot without much idea of what’s going on. This site may help. It’s the Web 2.0 Awards, featuring lots of great sites. All the top names are in there, including flickr, facebook, myspace, del.icio.us, youtube, and many more.

Facebook is an online community-building website similar to MySpace. Both of these websites collect personal information. For me, my most jealously-guarded secret tends to be my email address. Thanks to a little bit of care (and another email address I use to sign up to crap) I’ve kept my spam down to an acceptable level. […]

…doesn’t seem to have hit Blogger yet. As a test, this post is going out at 22:39 here in Cambridge. I’ll be intrigued to see what the timestamp says.

Or not, actually. It’s Ken, again. The mayor of London criticised Robert Tuttle while bemoaning the US embassy’s insistence that its diplomatic staff should not pay the congestion charge because they view it as a tax. Embassies are exempt from all local tax under the 1961 Vienna convention. Mr Livingstone told ITV’s London Today: “It […]

… this makes quite a lot of sense. Wherever people live in fear, with no prospect of advance, we should be on their side; in solidarity with them, whether in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea; and where countries, and there are many in the Middle East today, are in the process of democratic development, we […]

This chap works for Microsoft. He works on the networking team. This picture may give a sense of how complicated Vista is going to be: Every single little square is a new feature for the networking stack. And people think making this stuff is easy?