August 2004

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1. Joggle Tellybot
   I keep putting off writing about it, but here’s a spare five minutes I prepared earlier. The Joggle Tellybot is a Jabber transport for letting you know what’s on the terrestrial television s...
   Published on 04 August in general
2. Review tools
   I’m a big fan of Alf Eaton’s forays into review tools, and his new RVW! bookmarklet is ace. From any item page on amazon you click...
   Published on 06 August in general
3. Maps on your phone
   When talking about the Tube map for mobiles that Transport for London and Orange provide, Jim Hughes point...
   Published on 10 August in general
4. Jabber meeting reminders
   I need a bot, transport whatever, which can query either my exchange server or my running copy of Outlook (via a small desktop app) and then send my meeting notifications via Jabber. Why is ...
   Published on 11 August in general
5. Dreamweaver is lame
   I don’t have a problem with the code it generates (because it’s driven by what I give it as templates and I work in code view anyway) but the application itself is the most unstable I’ve ever used ...
   Published on 17 August in general
6. Feed splicing
   I’ve been keeping my eye on FeedBurner since it came out, but I never really had a use for it. When they annou...
   Published on 17 August in general
7. Flickr feeds
   I don’t know when they started, but Flickr provides photo feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom! Hurrah! Maybe I should splice my own feeds together after all? The...
   Published on 19 August in general
8. Syndirella with Atom and a question about comments
   For a bit of fun the other day I sat down and added Atom support to Syndirella using the Atom.NET library. This w...
   Published on 19 August in general
9. criticising atom
   I always feel really bad when I criticise Atom, here are people using their own time (and time is money) to drive a project they think is worth it. I think it’s worth it too. I think
   Published on 19 August in general
10. Joy to the world
    It’s fairly rare that I mention anything actually personal on here, but at the weekend two of my best friends got married to one another. The weather was glorious and the day really couldn’t have b...
    Published on 23 August in general
11. Virus strikes!
    The Internet Storm Center has published a chart showing the historical trends in probes from Internet worms. The frequency is up to about 20 minutes, which means that if you connect an...
    Published on 23 August in general
12. New MSN transport for Jabber
    James Bunton has completely rewritten the MSN transport for Jabber in Python using the
    Published on 24 August in general
13. Atom over XMPP
    Finally! Now that Sam Ruby‘s sent it to the atom-syntax mailing list and
    Published on 25 August in general
14. send-a-cow
    I’m not entirely sure what was at the end of the lane this pointed down, and I think t...
    Published on 26 August in general
15. Sites that should die
    I really thought sites like this didn’t exist any more. Ads everywhere, animated gif ads at that, narrow content, tacky icons and a mid-sized content spread...
    Published on 26 August in general