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A Bit of Fry…

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 | No Comments »

Via Simon Willison’s link feed, I learned that comedian / writer / actor / intellectual Stephen Fry now has his own blog.

What surprised me most was the nature of his first post; an absolutely mammouth round up of his addiction to digital gadgets, and in particular SmartPhones.
I …

Four Things

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 | No Comments »

I know, I’m late to the party on this one, but this is my first meme. I’ve been passed the Four Thing batton by Simon, and as Simon says everyone still feels the need to reply to these memes, despite protests from some bloggers. So here goes…

Four jobs …

Synchronizing Feeds: FeedDemon + Newsgator

Friday, September 2nd, 2005 | No Comments »

As RSS feeds have become more and more a part of my online life (more so now than e-mails, probably), I’ve needed to rely on better software to look after the resulting “river of news” that I’m in danger of drowning in.

After having tried Firefox’s Live Bookmarks (far from …

Moving Over to WordPress

Sunday, March 27th, 2005 | No Comments »

During this recent (and still on-going) re-design, I decided to start looking for a decent Content Management System to replace my self-built scripts that had previously been powering the site’s backend. I had originally thought that by building my own CMS, I would be able to get exactly what I …

Re-Design In Progress

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Never satisfied with the design of this site, I’ve started a live redesign, playing with new ideas before your very eyes. Please accept my apologies for things being broken, inconsistent styling and generally offending your eyes. As with any of my web developments, familiarity breeds content, and usually by the …

RSS Hole: Update

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005 | No Comments »

In a blatant back-track to my previous RSS Hole post, I’ve resurrected the RSS section as a directory of feeds with a little bit of information about each where possible. This was done as there seems to be a few referrals from search engines with people looking for feeds, and …

RSS Hole

Thursday, December 30th, 2004 | No Comments »

Due to the increase in security placed on this server, I am taking down the RSS feed section, as it is no longer able to read feeds from external sites. A list of blogs that I read regularly can now …

Live Search Added

Sunday, December 19th, 2004 | No Comments »

You may notice that a new section has appeared on the homepage called “Live Search”; typing in the input box produces a list of results from both the blog and linkage sections.

The interesting bit about this is that it uses a technology called XMLHttpRequest - I can tell you’ve switched …

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Monday, December 13th, 2004 | No Comments »

Once again, changes are happening on WV4. As ever, they are unfinished but I’m putting them live on the site anyway as I complete them.

A lot of the changes are to do with the “backend”, so these will not really be obvious (unless something breaks, which is bound to be …

GMail Invites

Thursday, November 25th, 2004 | 19 Comments »

I have 4 GMail invites, available for anyone reading this who has not yet got one. First 4 to leave a comment on this blog entry will receive them. And yes this is a test to see if anyone other than me bothers to read this site!

I now have many …

Firefox: A Browser You Can Trust

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004 | No Comments »

If you haven’t yet tried out Mozilla’s Firefox browser, now might be the time to change that. Offering greater security, better standards compliance, plus more features and plugins than most people’s standard browser, Internet Explorer, it’s following is beginning to grow.
Learn …

v2004 Lineup #2

Wednesday, August 11th, 2004 | No Comments »

Seems like a few people have been directed to my site from Google, searching on the term ‘v2004 lineup’. Well, if that includes you, this is the official site with the full lineup.

Hopefully see you there!

For Sale:

Friday, June 25th, 2004 | 2 Comments »

100,000 slightly damaged England car flags. Would suit Tim Henman fans.

GMail: Google’s Email Servce

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004 | 7 Comments »

April 2005

Since writing this, Google have made various changes to GMail, improving support to non-Javascript enabled browsers, other accessibility improvements, as well as offering POP3 access and auto forwarding.

Also, due to increased competition from other e-mail services, they have upped the limit of space given from 1GB to 2GB …

v2004 Festival Line-Up

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004 | No Comments »

It’s been a few weeks since I last checked up on the ever-growing line-up for the V2004 music festival at Weston Park in August.

To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t originally that impressed with the turn out, but I …

Q’s Top 100 Gigs

Monday, May 3rd, 2004 | No Comments »

Q Magazine recently published the results of a vote of a readers pole for the greatest music gigs of all time. Fortunatley, I am glad to say that I was at one of those that made it into the top 3.

Things We Wish We’d Said

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004 | 1 Comment »

On two occasions in the last week I have found myself wishing for the kind of quick wit and way with words that few are graced with.

On both occasions I have avoided confrontation, and walked away wracking my brains for a smarter riposte than the answer that I had offered. …

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