Writing
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HotWired archives
A conversation on The Well about HotWired of old prompted me to Google for the remnants of the…
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Decent UK TV guide
A really simple telly guide, at last.
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Protesting the war in Estonia
My sister sent me this photo from a friend of a friend in Estonia and says: In Tartu the defence…
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The best thing about Movable Type 2.6
From the changelog: Changed all visible instances of blog to weblog in the system and in the…
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Giving and the Jhai Foundation
For me it’s finally time to start giving.
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Dawson’s Creek has a cast of one
The kids of Dawson’s Creek are actually identical clones sharing a single personality.
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Pepys Diary traffic statistics
If you’re as fascinated by the spread of memes as I am you might find my brief report on…
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Removing evil image links from Movable Type
How to free your Movable Type screens from those awful menus made out of images.
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Felicity
Wondering why ‘Felicity’ isn’t watched by anyone but me.
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Using a British/UK Windows keyboard with an Apple Mac in OS X (2)
Outdated instructions for using a British Windows/PC keyboard with a Mac.
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Byliner is reborn
Byliner, my site that lets you keep track of when (some of) your favourite writers publish new…
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How many Americans own passports?
Investigating the often quoted, and always varying, statistic that “only x per cent of US citizens own passports.”
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The stationary city
Waiting for a gridlock-sparked revolution in London.
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More weblogging friends and Trackback confusion
More friends start weblogging and why Trackback makes no sense whatsoever.
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Yay for Rosie!
The Rosie Butler Ideal Man Application Form is now closed.
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My x and my y
I’m all geo-encoded now.
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Gadget bag
Where I have travelled back in time to make it easy to find a particular bag.
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Thayer’s Pork Pies
I shared my latest batch of flapjacks around the office today and in return got a slice of one of…
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Interview on BBC Radio London Tuesday lunchtime
I’ll be on the radio.
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Flapjack
I’ve been experimenting with making flapjack and the current batch is a winner. Here’s the recipe…
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Laser Squad by email
A great time-drainer of my youth returns to haunt me.
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Hello Byliner!
An embarrassing, but relieving, u-turn.
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Validation tools
Two handy things: Checky, a Mozilla validation plug-in, and Amaya, the W3C’s web browser.
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Mexican food and restaurants in London
Originally wondering why the few Mexican restaurants in London are unfortunate tequila fests, rather than tasty taquerias. Now a summary of Mexican eating options in the city.
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Akufen
Last week the New York Times had an interesting article about about the most underrated albums of…