Category: Internet

John Naughton wrote a good piece in The Times examining why exactly we’re giving Bill Gates an honorary knighthood.

Cheers Nick. The Hysteria Meter can now be relatively easily changed. Oh, and the Departures box on the left is just using the helpfully rewritten version of the official National Rail Enquiries website to supply me with up to date info on the trains I use. Well it is my website after all.

Hooray! My ISP has started filtering my Spam. Starting now, I’ll see how many pieces of Junk Mail get through, and compare with last week – 1300 Sat to 1300 Sun GMT.

Yeah, right. This is going to happen…

“The vast majority of them, I would say, are not worth the time it took to type them into the keyboard.” Val McDermed speaking about weblogs on The Message. I certainly hope that this writing isn’t “sub Bridget Jones” and I can honestly say that despite the fact that I read The Guardian, I don’t…

My weather page is bust because the BBC have changed their format. Some reprogramming’s in order…

Lots of spam issues with commenting and send-email stuff so it’s all broken right now.

Well having only just properly got my email notifications working for comments (not that there are many), I receive the first couple of Trackback spams. Both target the same site and both reference an article about an anti-war march in Los Angeles. This could be the start of something horrible.

Well the weather thing is slightly improved today, although it doens’t now have the forecast detailed (I’ll add it later), and it doesn’t work for negative temperatures which is also a problem.

Well I’ve got to say that I absolutely love the PHP weather thing that I’ve got running on the index page now. I could maybe tidy up how it appears, and there are all sorts of fancy graphical devices that could be used, but in the short term, this scripting does something I’ve wanted to…

Just when good old Gerald Kaufman is once again calling for apologies before he wants the dismantling of the BBC, I discover a whole load of really useful resources scattered about. First off, there are the technical BBC Training resources, with tips on using DV Cameras, and interviewing people, or using MiniDiscs. Excellent stuff. BBC…

He was on the Today Programme this morning. The site also links to the audio (at least it’s there today). The Guardian has a G2 cover story today as well.

Check out the new RSS Feeds on the right hand side of this blog! I think that they look quite cool, and there’s a funky new RSS 2.0 version which should be read quite easily by such programs as FeedDemon (which I’m beginning to learn to get to like). In fact it was only because…