Archives for December 2005

On returning from Norfolk... (December 30, 2005) Well, I'm back in London after the family Christmas. Things went pretty well, all things considered. There were a few wobbly moments as my mother dealt with the stress of catering for - and hosting - thirteen people for lunch,...

Links for 2005-12-22 (December 22, 2005) A court in the Pennsylvanian town of Dover has declared it unconstitutional to teach Intelligent Design in the town's schools... I think my favourite comment about the whole thing comes from Pat Robertson who said that the move risked...

Links for 2005-12-21 (December 21, 2005) One Billion Internet Users (from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) "Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who...

A quick note from jetlaggia... (December 20, 2005) It's this direction that's the killer - not being able to sleep until 4 or 5am and not feeling awake and fresh until the middle of the afternoon. I've been back in the UK for a couple of days, but...

Links for 2005-12-18 (December 18, 2005) John Spencer, who played The West Wing's Leo McGarry, has died aged 58 God, what terrible news. I'm astonished that he was only 58 - he looked ten years older at least. It turns out that he was younger...

Links for 2005-12-16 (December 16, 2005) Wikipedia survives research test "The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found...

Kong! Kong! Kong! Kong! (December 15, 2005) There's a moment about a fifth of the way through King Kong (IMDB / Metacritic) when a young character who's reading a copy of Heart of Darkness suddenly twigs that he's not reading an adventure story. And then about thirty...

Links for 2005-12-14 (December 14, 2005) Alexa Web Search Platform "The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's...

Links for 2005-12-13 (December 13, 2005) The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 I'm not buying the Web 2.0 = web app concept as such, but this is still a pretty solid list of good web apps out there and hence (at the very least)...

Update from San Francisco... (December 12, 2005) So I'm halfway through my first Yahoo-employed trip to San Francisco and I've been so bloody busy that I've not really had much of an opportunity to keep up with my e-mail or my community or with what's been going...

Links for 2005-12-10 (December 10, 2005) Metacritic reviews The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - and likes it! I've fallen over with a revolting stomach bug overnight and feel like crap, but I'm still completely looking forward to the Narnia film and King Kong....

In which Yahoo! buys del.icio.us... (December 9, 2005) So the big news of the day around my way is the acquisition of weirdly punctuated site del.icio.us by weirdly punctuated site (and my current employers) Yahoo!. You can read more about it on the Yahoo search blog (Two Great...

Links for 2005-12-08 (December 8, 2005) MeetWithApproval.com - "Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone & keep track of who is coming." This is a lovely piece of kit - pretty easy to assemble, but really elegant. This would...

Links for 2005-12-06 (December 6, 2005) The BBC has investigated the product placement claims I linked to a few days ago... "The investigation found that ... where products had been sourced for free, this was done in accordance with the BBC's guidelines. However, the investigation...

Bay Area, here I come... (December 1, 2005) Right then. This is a short post because I've got to set up a printer, do my washing, pack, pay my rent, package up a couple of letters, find all my dodgy peripherals, set alarms and clean up and stuff,...

Links for 2005-12-01 (December 1, 2005) An evening with Jon Stewart of the Daily Show - in London, in about a week! No idea if they have any tickets left, and I'm not going to be able to go because I'm in the US, but...