November 2004

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The Mona Lisa Effect
The Guardian recently published an article about the Mona Lisa, saying how more people go to see it so that they ...
Published on 16 November in general
Pine again
Having not used it for about four years, I’m slightly scared by the ease with which I remembered all of the keyboard shortcuts in Pine (in fact I knew ...
Published on 16 November in general
Winter arrives
Winter finally arrived in Sheffield at about 5pm last night when it started to snow. It continued until about 11pm, but it was slightly too mild for it to really settle (except on car roofs ...
Published on 19 November in general
My life as a teenage goth
This is just great. “I am a goth and so’s my mums cousin.” Make sure to read all the comments. Hilarious. 🙂 (vi...
Published on 21 November in general
The First Apple UK Store
Apple opened their first shop in the UK on Regent Street at the weekend, and unbeknownst to me, my little brother was there. In fac...
Published on 22 November in general
Choosing Microsoft
In his most recent ‘ongoing’ post, Tim Bray writes: These days, interoperation and integration are everything. You’d better have open interfaces, open networks, open services; t...
Published on 22 November in general
IE is a choice?
Gary Schare, Microsoft’s director of product management for Windows says: I still believe in the end that most users will decide that IE is the best choice when they take into a...
Published on 23 November in general
No Software Patents
This is doom...
Published on 23 November in general
Gmail Searching
I hadn’t realised until just this minute that Gmail allows a query syntax similar to that of Lookout. ...
Published on 25 November in general
Enhancing Firefox GUI usability
You no longer have to go through the hassle of editing your CSS,
Published on 29 November in general
iCan shows its face
A new story on the BBC news website about how we should use second class post instead of first cl...
Published on 30 November in general