It’s been a funny fews days with things all over the place but now I’m getting back on track. I find I can say very little more about Hurricane Katrina; there’s a lot out there. TheTimes-Picayune continues to be published, even if online only, in a life goes on mode. In a weird way the […]
Google Talk
Google’s Im client is now available for download. The download is tiny, the install is quick and the interface is, as to be expected, nice and clean. As with MSMessenger, it’s tied into the online email account and you need a Gmail account to use it. The same email alerts are avaialable (in fact the […]
OS
I;ve been testing Google’s new Desktop Sidebar whaatchamacallit. It looks pretty good so far, all the bits working well; just need FTSE 100, UK weather and a few more UK news soruces ( I see the telegraph..is the BBC somewhere there?) It looks like innovation around web services is increasing. Kottke has a insightful piece […]
Flickr Login Broken
Flickr is slowly amalgamating itself into Yahoo and this weekend the IDs started merging. At this point you have a choice, but at some point in the future you won’t. So I combined them and now, annoyingly, you have to login every single time you go to Flickr instead of just using a cookie. Clicking […]
Flying Spaghetti Monster
FSM. FSM. FSM. FSM. Click and find out about its wonderful noodly goodness.
22 Aug notes
From Engadget, a look back to 1985 and how the technology blog may have looked then as a BBS. I remember of lot of these; the Windows1.0 screenshot in particular struck home considering how much time I’ve spent starng at such screens. From Niall Kennedy, blogs as a communication tool. Blogs usualy – hopefully ;o) […]
More flash sites
A couple of flash sites coulght my eye today. The first is from Gap. A dodgy idea poorly execited in this case. It comproses a virtual strip tease and the ‘model’, whom you have designed, removes their clothes. The file size is large enough to freeze my browser, the interface is clucky and the animation […]
Massager
I followed one of the links through to Amazon’s Adult Toys and Games section (coy name for not so coy product section). In amongst the variably shaped pink and purple vibrators I came across this picture. My initial reaction was along the lines of WTF…how do you use this? A closer look at the caption […]
Reporter accuracy
I wonder if the reporter I’ve just seen on Channel 5 news has ever used a search engine. He was demonstrating Google, looking for flower shops. From his commentary, he apparently was expecting the results to be in alphabetical order and also appeared to be put out that there were paid results at the top […]
Roundup 20 Aug
Lots of fun to be had with Ultimate Flash Face. Mix and match your favourite facial features in a myriad of ways. Far better than Mr Potatoe Face. Via Paradox1x Virtual Life: a Chinese student has been arrested for carrying out muggings. In this case, all the muggings were virtual, in the game LineageII, but […]
17 Aug Snippets
Been a bit busy over the last few days. The Gilry Geek Dinner yesterday was fun, Sarah did a great job of organising and has a round-up of the event. Today was interesting; most of it with no connectivity fromthe office due to a certain virus and then some noise on the job front that […]
Analysis of a Rumour
Mathew Hurst does a nice analysis of the path of the rumour associated with Technorati, tracking the spread and how it can change from rumour to a more definite statement.
Round Up
More stuff. Blake Ross has an irony-laden take on Airport Secuity which rings some bells; especially with the the apparent lack of care I often see in various airports; there’s lot’s of people doing the job, just few looking like they care about it. The lady at the entrance to the security line asks to […]
Round Up
Some stuff that caught my eye today. Via Adverblog, a Renault Megane ad video that is unlikely to make primetime TV. It definitely takes to an extreme the use of scantily clad women to advertise cars. An unusual defence against the purchase of beer for someone who is underage – that the Miller Genuine Draft […]
Scrambling
This is fun – make your words before someone else grabs your letters. Via
Travel Tips
Via London Underground. a very cool set of maps from quickmap.com, a company that’s been providing online maps for about 6 years. Wonderful fun little dynamic maps, that are quite mind-numbing to watch. The Tube one is fun, but my favourites are the bus ones, with the hoardes of buses being let loose from the […]
Flickr Ecards
The Flickr Blog points towards another service that has been developed using their APIs. Charles Coxhead has pulled together an Ecard service, using images published under a Creative Commons licence. At the moment the text search does not work, so you can only send current images but a superb idea to introduce people to your […]
Simply Fired
Simply Hired ,a recruiting/job company have launched a competition, collecting tales of woe from people who have been fired called, obviously, Simply Fired. They’ve lined up an interesting group of judges for the competition most of whome seemed to blog about the site yesterday. The winner and guest “will join The Apprentice TV show cast […]
BBC Continues to Educate
I see that the BBC’s Chris Moyles has leapt to the top of the Apple download chart, becoming one of the fastest selling podcasts of 2005 (sorry, been listening to too many chart shows). Ten hours after release, it topped the list of most subscribed; not sure if it’s there now as the list is […]
Talk Digger
TalkDigger is a new tool from Frederick Giasson which should provide some help in the currecnt debate about which blog search tool is providing better results. In fact, its development appears to have been driven by the debate. Then some weeks ago I asked myself that question: why don’t you build an application to query […]