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  1. The Balkans by Mark Mazower

    The fact that the recent troubles in the area only get a couple of the 135 pages shows what a…

  2. Audioscrobbler

    Having lots of fun with Audioscrobbler, which is, really, kind of like a social networking site without all the annoying “Are you my friend” stuff, and with lots and lots of music.

  3. Donald Barthelme’s reading list

    81 works recommended by Donald Barthelme, and why such reading lists are far more intriguing than ‘50 Essential Albums You Must Own’ style lists.

  4. Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger

    I never expect much from net-related books, assuming I’ll have heard it all before elsewhere.…

  5. Bye bye HyperCard

    HyperCard has been put out of its misery, which seems inevitable but a shame. But you can download a stack I made a dozen years ago. About tea.

  6. Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly

    Reading this for the first time, ten years after publication, it’s a mix of comfortingly…

  7. Powergen’s negative energy

    How can one company do so many simple things wrong: Powergen sent me a gas bill a while back,…

  8. Goodbye frames, hello CSS

    Live After Dark, a site I developed at Poke around the New Year, went live last week and despite the design’s flouting of many of today’s best web design practices, I’m proud of certain aspects of its construction.

  9. Houston’s transport

    Houston’s got light rail. But it didn’t when I was there, and I’ve provided a handy set of bullet-points outlining my experience of travel in the city.

  10. Goodbye spam

    A graph demonstrating what a difference using Knowspam.net has made to my incoming email over the past month.

  11. California photos

    My photos of sunsets, palm trees, blue skies, and few people, from my recent trip.

  12. Goodbye fabius@well.com

    I’m unsubscribing from the the Well after seven years. It was OK.

  13. Back from California

    Etcon highlights, a couple of days in LA, and a tempered enthusiasm for America.

  14. Why not to buy a Roomba

    The cute little robot vacuum cleaners have rather less ethical cousins.

  15. Pre-conference fun

    What I got up to on Monday in San Diego. Walking, CDs, books, burger, horse shoeing, Mexican.

  16. I forgot to pack my cynicism

    A worryingly seductive train journey from Santa Barbara to San Diego.

  17. I’ve had it up to here

    After 5,000 MyDoom emails in the past couple of weeks I’m signing up to Knowspam, to get my email back.

  18. Whither Ikeaphobia?

    Many people say Ikea and Starbucks are evil. Adam Greenfield says they’re fine. I say the world’s not so simple and these black and white arguments don’t help anyone.

  19. MapQuestster

    My frustration at spatial annotation ideas and social networking nonsense spouted gently onto the Geowanking mailing list.

  20. Their first movies

    Quotes from ‘My First Movie’ on how driven (or otherwise) first-time directors have to be.

  21. Back when 1KB was more than enough

    A photo of my family gathered around the roaring flicker of a ZX81’s black and white display.

  22. Bah, kids today…

    The excitement and thrills of living in London, where you too could get knocked off your bike by a gang of aimless teenagers!

  23. Weblogs, unexplained

    Watching the word “weblog” appear in the press with gradually decreasing amounts of explanation.

  24. Pepys TrackBack: fixing the problems and a new layout

    I had to write some tools to manage the duplicated TrackBacks at Pepys’ Diary, but it meant I could then create a whole new (un-TrackBack-like) layout for the TrackBack listings.

  25. TrackBack problems at Pepys’ Diary

    Sending several dozen pings from a Movable Type entry sometimes seems to make things go a bit wonky.