This is sadly, ultra-cool in my opinion. These days there is so much emphasis placed on website usability and look and feel that it’s refreshing and nice to see somebody take it all back to brass tacks. Mark Woodman. Truly inspired IMHO. via: Tom Raftery
Interesting summation of what DRM actually means as opposed to the techie description of what it actually is. Handy if you should ever find yourself at a party and in dire need of plain English to describe the problem to people who may just not be interested. 🙂 source: WIRED Blogs: Listening Post
If like me you think that Gmail is most definitely the greatest web-based e-mail system you have ever used and even though your better judgement warns you against ticking the Google search boxes that allow searching of your e-mail through Google Desktop, you know you just want to anyway. Here’s a link to somebody else…
I’ve been blogging now since about January 2002, sadly my Greymatter archives for all bar March 2002 were lost between site updates. Technically speaking if you count my misadventures with procmail recipes and perl scripts then I’ve been “blogging” since early 2001. Up until recently I wrote stuff mostly for my own amusement, to keep…
This morning I opened my RSS reader much like any other day. Then trawling through the day’s updates I spotted this post from Bernie. Our techie ambassador from the Irish Times, Karlin Lillington, has returned after a very long absense from the blogosphere (March 6th 2006 according to my RSS reader). Looking forward to new…
After all the controversy of the new Apple iPhone name it turns out that Apple and Cisco have reached an agreement whereby they will both share the name “iPhone”. No financial details have been released but the deal is rumoured to open up a working relationship between Apple and Cisco in future communications developments. source:…
I hate spammers but sometimes they make me laugh. Whether it’s a hilarious version of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch or suggesting that my name might be Rocky Wagner.
Just reading Bernie’s RSS feed, as I do every day (he’s worth subscribing to), and noticed this posting on the use of pseudonyms and proposed legislation with respect to internet identities. It makes for shocking reading that it might be illegal to set up an e-mail account with inaccurate information about yourself. Let’s hope that…
Now here’s a quirky idea that you don’t hear about every day. Somebody has gone off and done the math of exactly how much energy would be saved if Google’s homepage had a black background instead of white. Makes sense I guess. source: the thinking blog
Make a badge for your site’s RSS feed, give one to your friends, share them around. The world needs more badges! Here is a really quick example of what you can do with a little JavaScript and Yahoo! Pipes, I can feel the PHP draining from me. I don’t like that you have to put…