March 2006

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1. Channel 4 goes tech crazy
   All next week, Jon Snow will be reporting from Iran. According to Krishnan Gur...
   Published on 01 March in general
2. The return of the 1990s
   It’s been brewing for a good twelve months, but all the Britpoppers can finally celebrate: the mid-1990s are back in force. Whilst walking around the shops the other day I heard Elastica, Oasis, Bl...
   Published on 03 March in general
3. Atom extensions and FOAF
   James Snell has posted a new Internet Draft for expanding the details of an atom:author called Atom Syndic...
   Published on 03 March in general
4. Moving from FeedOnFeeds to Gregarius
   After a mail from Rod Begbie I’ve finally decided to move to a free, open-source aggregator which actually has active development:
   Published on 03 March in general
5. My first conference conflict!
   I really really wanted to go to @Media 2006 (15th-16th June, upcomin...
   Published on 06 March in general
6. JavaScript slides, Yahoo! JavaScript and Microsoft JavaScript web stitching
   ETech 2006 has kicked off and of the presentations I’ve looked at so far today, two have stood out in particular: Simon Willison’s
   Published on 08 March in general
7. Flock you, Ninger!
   Lately, I’ve been saying Ninged a lot. It’s shorthand for a chasm in usability. Though you’ve created new market space, the share of that marke...
   Published on 09 March in general
8. JTextile still in use!
   In the last couple of weeks, there have been three separate reports of JTextile being used in the wild!...
   Published on 15 March in general
9. I know nothing about Windows installers
   I don’t know anything about configuring or using Windows installers. Seriously. From January to February, my contact form was broken, since I fix...
   Published on 19 March in general
10. Ambient wifi rabbits
    Nine months ago I was looking for a good ambient presence display, which could also be used for things like build stat...
    Published on 22 March in general
11. Shocking NHS HTML
    I’ve just applied for my European Health Insurance Card (no more E-111s!), and thought “gosh, isn’t this font small? and isn’t the menu highlight poorly written? that’s some bad CSS there I reckon ...
    Published on 23 March in general
12. Leverage my attention predictably
    Kathy Sierra is right, our attention is badly used and unfocussed and it’s not just our own fault – ...
    Published on 27 March in general
13. Presence-driven interruptions
    As well as only being interrupted at regular, predictable times, I want any interrupt-driven tools (like aggregator and email toaster alerts) to respect my calendar and presence status. In fact, it...
    Published on 30 March in general
14. Resources for writing a WxWidgets, XMPP-aware Python aggregator
    From scratch: Python 2.3 (although I normally use ActiveState’s
    Published on 31 March in general
15. Berlin '06
    On Monday I’ll be off to Berlin for a few days. Despite having lived in Germany for twelve months in 2000-2001 in a small town in the south-east, I’ve only had flying trips to the capital, so it’ll...
    Published on 31 March in general