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Monthly Archives: August 2005
The Spaghetti Code
The worlds best selling book (after the main religious core texts) is the Da Vinci Code, which describes a hypothetical trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci. Clues that are visible to all, but disguised. Continue reading
Review: Dawn Simulator
The basic idea behind the Lumie Bodyclock is that it combines a timer, a dimmer switch and a Neodymium light-bulb; it can thus simulate a summer sunrise on the coldest darkest winter mornings, thereby giving a more gentle and holistic wakeup than that which is afforded by a shrieking buzzer in the dark. We’ve had one for about 12 months so we thought we’d give it the once over. Continue reading
Spam Indirection
I think this may be a mildly new twist on email and referral spam: using referral spam to advertise a message that’s stored in an unused public newsgroup, thus avoiding spam filters. Continue reading
Lynn Breeze: My First Website
I’m delighted to welcome my Auntie Lynn to the WWW today. For a very long time now I’ve been suggesting that Lynn and the World Wide Web would be a very good match. Lynn is (primarily) an illustrator and author of childrens’ books, though she has done all kinds of other stuff including greetings cards and even Jackanory (something that I thought was very cool when I was a kid). Lynn’s new website, which has been mostly set up by my cousin Jo, is hopefully the start of a long and worthwhile venture. Continue reading
Installing Google Talk
Google Talk enters it’s beta phase today. It’s an instant messaging and Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP) application. The burning question is, of course, can it be a replacement for other instant messaging clients? Continue reading
Google Desktop Search V2 (Linux MIA)
Yesterday Google launched Google Desktop 2 beta, an extension of their existing Google Desktop application that indexes personal computers so their information is as easy to find as the rest of the web. This beta release introduces a pluggable sidebar, and introduces some interesting possibilities about what will come next. Continue reading
Never mind the technology, feel the community.
This is a bit of a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend quote, but since it’s semantic web related, I guess FOAFesque quoting is allowable. Danny Ayers just commented on Phil Wilson’s comment regarding Nick Lothian’s comment that “Every time anyone dares to question RDF the RDFites assume they don’t know how it works.” Continue reading
WordPress Multiple Authors Plugin
Yesterday I began to realize that WordPress (the software that manages the content you are reading now) might not be able to do something we need on this site: the capability to record and communicate that several people have authored an article. Continue reading
BBC Viral Marketing
Earlier today there was a story on BoingBoing (and then naturally, on Slashdot) surrounding what appeared to be a viral marketing campaign started by the BBC. Continue reading
MostWanted 0.1.4
I’ve just made a small update to the MostWanted plugin that solves an output validity issue. Continue reading
100,000 pages served.
At 11:44:51 today this site served it’s 100,000th page. That’s 100,000 pages served to real people. In fact, many more pages have actually been served, but the recipients of this additional output are search engine spiders and spam merchants. Continue reading
