Inspired by a post “Letter Sweep” by Tim Bray, here’s my browser A-Z, a list of the URLs that appear when the browser tries to guess, on a single letter press, where I want to go, based on past locations. A: appengine.google.com – unsurprising, as I’m a big fan of Google’s App Engine. B: bbc.co.uk [...]
Yes yes, I know I’m late to the game, and everyone and his dog has given their angle on why Twitter is so successful, but I’d like to weigh in with a few thoughts too. The thoughts are those that came together when I was chatting to Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden), at a GeekUp event in [...]
As feeds are the new blogs (quoting myself, oh dear!) I thought it important to make sure that the feed bots that have been continuously polling my weblog’s feed and getting 404s (since 2005, I guess) are sent to the right place. My Apache access.log file was showing that 404s were being returned for /qmacro/blog/index.rdf [...]
I’m back online, after an eXtended Away in Real Life. I don’t think my online presence will ever be what it was (I can’t believe how much I posted in the past few years) but blogging isn’t the same anyway. Even the new UK edition of Wired magazine (I’ve subscribed, btw) lists blogging under “Tired”. [...]