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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 […]

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 […]