Writing
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Questioning time
What he said. Last night, unable to find anything on TV that wasn’t about the war, that…
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Ethical ISAs
Options for saving money that aren’t going to make the world even worse than it already is.
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“New!” markers in Movable Type
A method of marking entries or comments as new since a user’s last visit.
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New old photos
Photos of Madrid, Chamonix, Philadelphia and Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.
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Happy birthday Wired
Wired is ten years old. Gary Wolf writes about what things were like ten years ago. But nothing in…
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Big bag of words
A guide to talking like a gamer, an online language journal, and a language weblog.
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Internet Explorer’s font size strangeness
Wondering why Internet Explorer resizes fonts that are specified using ems and percentages very differently.
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Changing Movable Type archive URLs
A quick way of changing your Individual archive URLs without breaking links.
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Road geeks
Celebrating geekery in an unexpected area… Chris’s British Road Directory.
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Testing font sizes
An attempt to find out how to size my fonts so that everyone can read them.
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I’m now available in French!
My ‘Introduction to weblog terms for weblog readers’ has been translated.
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Creating a 1980s virtual world
Chip Morningstar’s entertaining and still relevant 1990 essay on building and running ‘Habitat,’ a mid-80s online multi-player game.
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More Newton fun
Pointing to a summary of what’s happening on the Newton, five years after it stopped shipping.
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Babies galore
Ada, Aasta and Oskar.
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BBCi’s accessibility report
The BBC publishes a great report on their own sites’ accessibility. But in the non-accessible format of PDF. Doh!
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Broxtt’s blog
This week a few of us at work have been giggling quietly while creating a fake weblog for our…
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Micro marketing
If you live in Barnet or St Albans and want to learn to draw or paint then you need Insight. I…
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Sieving spam on the Mac
Using SpamSieve to filter email: 98.9% accurate.
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I’ll give them a word burst or two…
Accpording to the New Scientist it might be possible to track societal change by monitoring the…
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Aqua on Windows XP
AquaXP.com is devoted to making your Windows machine look like Mac OS X. There’s a distinct…
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Books read and to be read
Lists of books I’ve read each year, what I’m reading now and what’s sitting on…
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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…