Archive for April, 2005

This has been bugging me for a few days now as a ‘hole’ in the way Blogging works right now. So, as a short “lunchtime thought”:

If people comment on my blog, I know about it. If people update their blog with new entries then I get notified via the Ping that bumps them up on [...]

I actually looked at my Technorati profile again this evening and notice that next to my claimed weblog, it says:
Claimed with Quick Claim. To enable advanced features, cancel and reclaim by editing your blog template.
So, what advanced features are these? This must be a stonking example for making words into hyperlinks – the words being [...]

I’m trying to build myself a contingency plan for getting a job over the summer. Ideally I’ll be staying in Bracknell until September and doing lots of web standards work for FSC, but since that’s rather in the balance for accommodation reasons, I’m looking for an alternative back home that doesn’t start with “Mc”.

So far [...]

At midnight, I discovered a fantastic bug in iTunes. I have a smart playlist for “new music”, which contains all the music I’ve put on the computer in the last two weeks.

At midnight, it recalculated this list and discovered that the piece of music that I was listening to was no-longer “new”. So it disappears [...]

About a month ago, I put in a request at my bank to convert 1000 from a 60-day access account into cheque form, and send it to me. The reason, I want a PowerBook. I’d like one for Uni and I put aside the money for buying a notebook computer years ago. I never bought [...]