Words in a Time of War
If you read only one thing today: Words in a Time of War (Via Geoff Arnold)
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Well, this post has been a long time coming. Back in November ’05 I really didn’t know whether I wanted to bother with this blog. A young family and work commitments meant that I had very little time to write the kind of longer posts that I tried after previous hiatus. Really, I found myself [...]
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Is this thing still working? Hmm….
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My blog is worth $0.00.How much is your blog worth? Actually, thats more than I expected.
Religion as a bad influence
George Monbiot writes in todays Guardian about some facinating research into correlations between the prevelence of religious belief in societies and various undesirable social outcomes. The research he cites looked at looked at eighteen democracies with similar levels of economic development, but having different levels of religious belief. It concluded: “In general, higher rates of [...]
Damn Small and Damn Cool
USB ‘thumb’ (or ‘pen’) drives are one of those low-profile technological developments that you mostly don’t give much thought to; but when you do you realise just how amazing they are. Back in 1989 I bought my first 20GB hard-drive for my first PC The drive was big (perhaps a bit bigger than a video-cassette [...]
How to redirect an asp.net-generated RSS feed
One thing you’ll want to do if you change the location of your blog is to have your subscribers automatically pick-up the new location of your RSS feed. This post just documents a trick that I used recently to do this. If you are lucky enough to using an asp.net-based blogging tool then it is [...]
Live from New Orleans
Interdictor blogging live from central New Orleans. The guy is the crisis manager for an ISP, and they have a generator and a fat pipe out to the net. The also have a police radio scanner and a webcam, and they’re reporting looting in the streets and rescue helicopters coming under fire. I really don’t [...]
New Orleans
New Orleans Times-Picayune is publishing breaking news in weblog format. It makes for a pretty disturbing read: destruction and death and misery. A lot of people have had their lives wrecked, and are going to be living like refugees for years to come. Why were so many people apparently too poor to be able to [...]
Don’t click it
My normal policy is not to link to flash-based sites because I think it just encourages them. However, dontclick.it is snazzy enough to be an exception. Try it! I’ve see a few examples of gesture-based user-interfaces and, while this is one of the best looking, I’m still skeptical. Without primities (such as buttons, sliders, and [...]
