Writing
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Geolocational link dump
A collection of URLs scavenged from two months’ worth of unread Geowanking mailing list emails. Maps, wikis, GPS, Flash, RSS, RDF… the usual.
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Delancey and 2nd St
Eddie Morton, ‘The Sound of Vaudeville’, and my photo of his neighbourhood.
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Changing jobs
The Guardian’s special report on changing jobs, and how great it is to hear about people making the break…
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Looking as cheerful as any man could do…
“I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”
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The Caretaker
John Peel played a track by The Caretaker earlier this evening. It’s good stuff and you can…
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Sunsets and shared experience
Other peoples’ photos of Wednesday’s London sunset show how much richer the online world can make the real world. Hurrah!
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McSweeney’s vs They Might Be Giants
“Quirky” pop duo and self-absorbed literary quarterly… a recipe for embarrassment. Or maybe not!
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Linklogs are taking off. Again.
Ooh, excitement! Some people think “linklogs” are taking off! But, of course, they’re nothing new — Jorn Barger was doing it waaay back.
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“I wish he would pull my hair again”
A friend of mine in the US has started posting excerpts of her diary from when she was 12 to her weblog. “I want to be Joey’s friend … I wish he would pull my hair again.”
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Bloglines’ blogrolls and the real world creating friends
You can now include your “blogroll” direct from Bloglines. And I ramble about why some people feel like closer “friends” just because they’re physically nearer.
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Hiragana and Katakana practice page
I’ve made a page to help people (like me) practice their Japanese alphabets.
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Online autobiography tools?
Is there a market for a simple tool that would allow people to easily document their lives? No, not weblogs; something geared towards the past.
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Link-only weblogs aggregated on Haddock Blogs
Haddock Blogs now has a separate list and RSS feed of a few other “link logs” or link-only weblogs, or whatever you want to call them.
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Sensible RSS feeds for “link logs”
Looking through RSS feeds of various link-only weblogs, I realised they all had entirely different formats. So I’m trying to work out why people do what they do, and what (I think) they should do.
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Imperial Rome’s high density living
In Rome 2,000 years ago, most people lived in apartment blocks five to six storeys high.
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Dinnerladies
Nancy Banks-Smith on the canteen sitcom, and why Stan should be in ‘The West Wing’.
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Family Tree
I’ve just drawn up the (partial) Gyford Family Tree.
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Viewing iChat logs
Logorrhea is a simple and free application for browsing and searching your iChat logs.
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Underground Britain
Fascinating information, photos and floorplans of underground locations around the UK, particularly the half of the site devoted to old cold war bunkers.
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Greater London Industrial Archeology Society
Their bi-monthly online newsletter is an amazing collection of wide-ranging background info on everything from bricks to the distilling industry.
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Awesome commercial use of XHTML/CSS
Ryan Carver has built a site for Lee Jeans and describes how its CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict are achieved. Very impressive. Plus a couple of web page validator type things.
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Douglas Coupland interviews
Two interviews with Coupland on the launch of ‘Hey Nostradamus!’.
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Farmers’ Market
Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market and occasional second hand book sales. A perfect Saturday morning.
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Bill Nighy
“There is nothing lonelier than being on stage in pantaloons.”
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Heading south for the winter
My sister’s making an unusual career move…