January 2006

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1. Structured Blogging opens up
   OK so this is old news because I’ve not been the blogging mood, but I think it’s important enough to cover anyway. In November 2005 I posted that: by far the weakest poin...
   Published on 08 January in general
2. Using JSPWiki in the enterprise
   I’m quite a fan of JSPWiki. I first came across it when I rolled it out at my last place of work, as an experiment. It worked out quite well, being used by ...
   Published on 10 January in general
3. vingt six
   You can wish me happy birthday if you like. 🙂
   Published on 10 January in general
4. Battlestar Galactica kicking ass
   The new television series of Battlestar Galatica has started; or rather, the concluding episode of the last series has been aired, and the new series ...
   Published on 13 January in general
5. If you know a criminal, are you a criminal?
   One of my old colleagues, Adam Smith, has written a very interesting post called If you know a crimi...
   Published on 17 January in general
6. Why poll for changes?
   Two things I’ve come across today have talked about the integration of external RSS feeds into a site or application:
   Published on 17 January in general
7. Google Talk flips the switch
   I flipped the switch to connect the Google Talk Service to the public XMPP network this morning. Google Talk users can now chat with users on other XMPP services and vice versa.
   Published on 17 January in general
8. Apple's photocasting arse
   Thanks to Mark Pilgrim for yet again daring to step where mortals fear to tread: Unofficial documentation of iPhoto ...
   Published on 18 January in general
9. Podcast quandary
   I like the idea of podcasts. There are some I even subscribe to: LugRadio,
   Published on 20 January in general
10. Deploying Jabber in the workplace
    Oktay Altunergil has written an article called Company-Wide Instant Messaging wit...
    Published on 23 January in general
11. Kinja's new look and new features
    In December 2004, I wrote that, despite really liking it, and despite it being part of Gawker Media (have they been taken over by News Corp. or not? I can’t tell) “
    Published on 23 January in general
12. Gmail's new delete button
    Gmail has rolled out a delete button, so that users can now easily delete their mail instead of just archiving it (...
    Published on 23 January in general
13. Tello extends presence to SIP
    Presence has been gradually seeping out from IM over the past few years into other applications, notably in the XMPP/Jabber community where presence is a key (it’s the first ‘P’ in XMPP!). The bene...
    Published on 24 January in general
14. Why would I want to edit in OPML?
    I don’t get all Dave Winer’s fuss about OPML. Now he’s trying to get his OPML Editor tool
    Published on 25 January in general
15. Web-search sellouts
    So, Google’s censoring its results in China, Yahoo helps get Chin...
    Published on 25 January in general
16. del.icio.us greasemonkey script
    A couple of weeks ago, Tom Coates was moaning about a UI aspect of
    Published on 30 January in general
17. Running a CMS on Atom
    At work I have the need to very quickly design and roll out an insanely basic CMS for a website. There is no official workflow, all content will be in XHTML, people need to be able to create...
    Published on 31 January in general
18. Internet Explorer 7 beta 2
    IE7 beta 2 is out, and all the MS bloggers are pimping it, so I thought I’d actually check out the site (I might install it at work, but there’s no chance I’m installing it at home). So you ...
    Published on 31 January in general