Archive for April, 2005
April 30th, 2005
Obviously
the best time to switch your blog from MT to WP is 5 minutes before leaving the house to go to the cinema.
on brief hiatus.
April 28th, 2005
A cottage for rent in Mundesley, Norfolk
NorfolkCottage.co.uk
As a child, it was always the case that if you got my mother drunk enough, after a while she would become a little maudlin and proclaim that all she wanted was a cottage in Norfolk to run away to. Well, it took 30 years, but now she’s got one.
It’s available to hire, and I […]
April 26th, 2005
Pastiche Conservative Party advert
Are you thinking what we’re thinking?
Originally uploaded by smagdali.
seen on the tube this week.
April 25th, 2005
oh god, now I’m talking about tags, too
but I just thought this thread on flickr was both funny AND illuminating, forgive me.
Tag police on flickr
April 11th, 2005
Doors8 Sessions: part 1
If information is a weapon, let’s make it a fair fight
Jogi Panghaal said something interesting with respect to the work I did for banner site upmystreet.com; in India, the recently passed Right of Information act has led to the publication of a vast array of local statistics, and this in turn is revitalising local democracy, […]
April 10th, 2005
Invoking the lazyweb: wikitext plugin for blogs
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but some work I’m doing at the moment with the wonderful WordPress has brought it to the fore. It’s simple really.
Blogs makes publishing easy
WikiText makes formatting content easy.
So why has no one written a plugin for WordPress that drops in MediaWiki’s wikitext parser so we can all […]
April 8th, 2005
Orange porkie pies?
I’ve been obviously having problems with my new phone, a shiny new ‘j-lo’ 3g nokia 6630. I’ve been trying to email pics to flickr directly from the handset.
Take picture, send as an email, and it gets about half way through and then dies.
The nice man at Orange technical support tells me that this is because […]
April 6th, 2005
The Burning Man of Conferences.
I spent highly productive time comparing Doors8 to various festivals. The rave visuals initially set me off I think.
At the first lunch, I thought Doors8 was The Big Chill . Nicely decorated, very civilised, everyone sitting round in the sunshine listening to nice relaxing music (although there’s only so much Gotan Project a […]
April 4th, 2005
Fear and Loathing on the conference trail
I’ve been on the road doing conferences for the past couple of weeks. Etech first, which I’m sure has been blogged by enough people already. I was talking about Theyworkforyou.com, of course. The thing was fun, but I didn’t see much that I thought was truly cutting-edge technology (with the exception of some of the […]