Writing
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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…
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They all start blogging in the end
My friend Ted has just started a weblog. He lives in Santa Barbara, makes films, writes film…
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Bye bye Byliner
One of my websites, Byliner, is closing down after three years, 50,000 stories and 4,500 writers.
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An introduction to weblog terms for weblog readers
Explaining terms such as weblog, permalink, RSS and Trackback to people who are new to weblogs.
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More Pepys and me
Slashdotting isn’t as fearful as it once was. Radio is very exciting. My voice is OK.
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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…