The five-things meme
So Erik's tagged me with the "Five things you don't know about me" meme, which I'vetracked back to Jeff Pulver via lots of interesting places.Here goes:I once played in an impromptu game of cricket in...
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Twittering nonsense
So I've succumbed to the meme, and joined the Twittering masses. Like Matthew I'm probably the wrong generation, being ancient enough to be Nathan Barley's dad, and experienced enough to remember life...
View ArticleJaiku to Twitter How-to
There's a fair bit of noise in the blogosphere about the nano-blogging battle between Twitter, Jaiku and Loopnote. Ewan's summary does a good job of rounding up the coverage, and Chris Saad's overview...
View ArticleMoving ip
This blog will be changing ip address some time tonight/early tomorrow as the splendid folks at JaguarPC are putting this site onto a faster and better connected box, for the princely sum of zero extra...
View ArticleWidgets category
This is the first new category for a while. Here's the logic behind it, I like widgets, buttons, badges etc for blogs, but I also like minimalism. So as a compromise between a stack of the latest...
View ArticleLatest MobuzzTV episode
Do you watch MobuzzTV? I do, it's one of my favourite vlogs. Anyway they've now made it nice and simple to embed the latest episode on your weblog / home page / whatever; simply add the following line...
View ArticleSymbian smartphone search made easy
Something I've had on the wiki for a while is the search box below. It's a swicki from eurekster, and it will find you a load of search results optimised toward Symbian smartphone oriented results. The...
View ArticleTowards Better Blogging
The rebirth of Russ and Diego as bloggers has reminded me - not that my stats haven't been telling me for a while - that this blog has been crawling along. The posting has been sporadic, and whilst...
View ArticleBlogging with IM
Not the "old" uber-techy blogging via a Jabber bot approach, but something far simpler, good old clipboard copy and paste.<JimH> heh, there's another blog post, I'll just anonymise the 10-15...
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Truphone button
Add this to the "it seemed like a good idea at the time" list.Now perhaps it's down to the way I use Truphone, but for me it's pretty much useless. The idea of the button is that it shows whether my...
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Going Mobile
It's somewhat ironic that I haven't had a mobile friendly web presence until now, given the primary focus of my blog and wiki; plus, a potential audience of over 2 billion handsets is stupid to pass...
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Norg, going mobile this year?
I was amused and interested by Cam's recent G'Day World where he chats with Aussie entrepreneur Bronwen Clune.Bronwen runs Norg Media who have a chunk of sites in style that I just love - user...
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Insight-full stuff
I'm not entirely sure whether I should post this in the widgets category, but given that there is a widget involved, I guess it's as good a place as any. As an aside, I suppose that's why folksonomies...
View ArticleBalloon Racing
So I'm balloon racing for Orange, if you look at the bottom right of the page you should see a small orange balloon bobbing around (click on it if you dare), tip of the hat to Tom's site for pointing...
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Up, up and away
Following Saturday's mention of the Orange Animals Balloonacy I've now signed up for my own balloon, you can follow its travails/travels here. If you seee it come past your site, please give it a...
View ArticleIdentica badges
There's been a lot written about Identi.ca a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica software. Whilst some view it as a Twitter-clone in many ways it's very different, with a primary...
View ArticleUsing TTYtter with Identi.ca
Since Twitter gave up on providing IM and sms access to their service, leaving most people stuck with web and api access there's been a variety of apps surfacing. Personally I use TTYtter a Perl...
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Saving Mobuzz
You probably already know that the daily buzz is one of my favourite vlogs. However the bad news is that the global financial downturn seems to have caught the Mobuzz folks in a cashflow crisis.To the...
View ArticleErgast Motor Racing API
The above is from the Ergast API Gallery. In their words: "The Ergast Developer API is an experimental web service which provides a historical record of motor racing data for non-commercial purposes....
View ArticleTen
Ten years of blogging?! That's come as a bit of a surprise to me, admittedly I've been hardly prolific for the last 2-3 years, but I am still going to keep this going. Much of the shorter content that...
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