Writing
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“They both hated DLT”
Snippets from ‘The Nation’s Favourite: True Adventures of Radio 1’, an extremely gripping read.
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It’s all gone a bit Warchalking
The growing snowball that is interest in the Pepys’ Diary site. Although snowballs don’t take long to melt.
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Movable Type is watching me…
Movable Type has become sentient and is magically doing things I’d previously dismissed as too much manual labour.
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Festive taping vs festive downloading
Wondering why I feel more of a criminal listening to MP3s of John Peel’s Festive Fifty rather than cassettes of the same thing.
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It’s Samuel Pepys’ Weblog!
I’ve just launched my new site, Pepys’ Diary. Every day, starting 1st January,…
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Friendster and FOAF
On the lessons Friend-of-a-friend developers could learn from the sudden success of Friendster.
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“Wisdom you can’t get from a terminal”
A spur of the moment decision yesterday evening resulted in going to see the film Avalon an hour…
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New Yorker Gawker
Asking why is there no Gawker.com-style site for London and an explanation of why it will make our heads explode.
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Where your FOAFs are
Find people on a global map generated using Friend-of-a-friend files.
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Uses for friends-of-friends
In my previous post I talked about FOAF files and longed for some exciting things to do with them.…
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Six degrees for geeks
What friend-of-a-friend files are, links to places about them, and the automation of social network definition.
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Skin this site
You can now skin this site, not that there are currently any useful skins.
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Encoding with LAME in iTunes
How to encode MP3s using the LAME encoder directly from iTunes.
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Up and running
The tedious details of attempting to get my PowerBook up and running again.
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Hal Hartley on BBC2
‘Book of Life,’ a movie by my favourite director, is on BBC2 on Friday night at 1.15am. It’s not available on DVD/VHS and was never released at the cinema. Hurrah!
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“Sounds secure to me!”
Tom’s helpful advice there. This morning I installed the 2002-11-21 Mac OS X Security Update.…
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Keeping up with the Newtons
This week there’s been some good stuff on the NewtonTalk mailing list that I mentioned. How…
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The mouse’s debut
In 1968, at the Stanford Research Institute, Douglas Englebart gave a public demonstration of the…
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SmartyPants
I just installed SmartyPants, a little plug-in for Moveable Type that automatically replaces a few…
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Newton: back from the dead
While I haven’t been to a computer fair for several yonks they always seem to feature a table…
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Fun with firewalls
I’ve spent more than several hours attempting to configure the firewall on my new ADSL…
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The same but different
This site’s new server isn’t the only change here. While the site looks much the same…
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A new home
This site is now nestling comfortably in its new home. Many, many thanks to Danny, James, Lee and…
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On the move…
www.gyford.com may well be moving to a new server soon, so things might go a little awry. Hold on…
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What to do when morale is low
Certain people might find this article useful. A stream of advice that you might think is common…