Archive for August, 2005

Once upon a time, on a website revision now somewhat more aged than I realised, I had a web cam. I don’t think many people used it (bar Jo, who could keep tabs on me and a few others who found it a useful means of seeing if I was on the phone and had [...]

One of my chief irritations with Gmail is the way in which it will embolden any folder with new mail, even ‘Spam’. Making things bold encourages you to look at them and deal with the items inside it (be that reading or deleting). Spam folders aren’t supposed to be distracting like this, they should just [...]

Many will already be family with Flickr’s many ‘pools’, but via Adacio’s photostream I stumbled into the Food Porn pool. Oh God I’m hungry now.

I have been getting more and more excitable about the potential of HTML5 as a future web standard. Rather than throwing away existing HTML (as XHTML2 will), it attempts the more CSS like approach of evolution. It’s being specified extremely well, filling in some gaps in HTML4.

Now, this is a year or so away (and [...]

I’ve become a big fan of iCal on the Mac. iCal has got a the fine balance of features vs. simplicity about right, so suddenly my life is colour coded.

I’ve got 9 calendars in it (hence the colour coding). Personal stuff, Birthdays (linked to the Address Book), Coursework tasks and deadlines, Lecture schedules, University events, [...]