Archive for May, 2005
May 26th, 2005
It’s always nice to get a gong
even after the fact:
Upmystreet Conversations wins a Prix Ars Electronica honourable mention.
via Joi Ito
May 11th, 2005
backstage.bbc.co.uk launches
“Like the Creative Archive, for data”
The BBC has launched a new site, backstage.bbc.co.uk that actively encourages people to mash up, remix, and re-invent the BBC’s content. This is awesome, not least because my very own wikiproxy gets a mention :), but because it seems to me to mark the point at which the BBC […]
May 4th, 2005
Hardware hacking for everyone
Inspired by Make magazine, I decided to attempt a simple hardware modification on my laptop.
Tool required: a knife
Time required: under a minute
I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember a single time I’ve used the CAPS LOCK key on my keyboard intentionally. I do however, accidentally hit about 20 times a day. It […]
May 2nd, 2005
It seems to be the fashion at the moment
For bloggers, here, there, and everywhere, to be doing a bit of spring cleaning. I’ve been planning to for ages, but not because I was bothered about the design, but because I’d had it enough of Movable Type. I never got my head round the template structure, and the textgif navigation on the admin UI […]
May 2nd, 2005
On the quality of Wordpress
The cottage site is based on a theme that I’ve created called kubrick-CMS, that I intend to make available as soon as a) this election is over, and b) I’ve shifted whitelabel.org from Movable Type to Wordpress.
The Theme is basically kubrick, but with all the blog-specific stuff ripped out, a simple way to fix the […]