July 2004
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- Mozilla can fuck off
My girlfriend and I were talking about computers the other day; she’s got one, but she’s just a normal user, and to be honest I was slightly surprised with the conversation we were having. “If anyo...
Published on 01 July in general - Windows messenger contact list to FOAF
There’s now more than one way to convert your MSN Messenger contact list into FOAF. Phil McCarthy’s msn2foaf has been around for quite a while and ...
Published on 03 July in general - Museums start to get mobile technology
if you decide to visit [the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge] you can grab yourself an ‘eGuide’ – a handheld computer and an earpiece – to carry around the galleries as you go. …there a...
Published on 04 July in general - Livejournal comment spam
I woke up this morning thinking about Livejournal comment spam. I mean, do they get any? How do they prevent it? Do thet use an
Published on 09 July in general - RSS reader evangelism
But how many people actually keep track of enough sites to justify a newsreader? (I’d say ‘enough sites’ is over 20 that publish new content daily). A few voracious ubergeek microconte...
Published on 09 July in general - Spellchecking in Firefox
SpellBound is a port of the spell checker user interface from Mozilla’s Composer that enables spell checking in web forms (e.g. html textarea and html input elements – html input passw...
Published on 14 July in general - Newsreaders in Firefox
Sage is an aggregator extension for Firefox. It’s the spiritual successor to the original RSS Reader Panel. ...
Published on 14 July in general - I hate Outlook
I hate Outlook. I don’t think I mention this nearly enough.
Published on 15 July in general - Lookout bought out
This was actually announced last week, but doesn’t seem to have been picked up quite as much as I thought it would have. Lookoutsoft, the makers of t...
Published on 19 July in general - Wow, thanks Hotmail!
Next time I want my junk mail settings changed without being asked, and thus having hundreds of mails dropped straight into my junk mail folder which is completely inaccessible except via the web s...
Published on 25 July in general - Jabber presence for my phone calls
I’ve got a Bluetooth-enabled phone, and a Bluetooth-enabled computer. I’m online and I’m using Jabber. Except I’ve set my status to “Do Not Disturb” – when I do, it’s not for fun, there’s a reason,...
Published on 25 July in general - HTML headings and XHTML
Anne cuts the crap and gets to the point: all this stuff about proper hierarchy is just guff. We’re using HTML for something it’s ...
Published on 26 July in general