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I said to someone at work today that there's been an entire generation who has only known media consumption and creation through digital means. This isn't a new observation and also it's not quite true. Colouring books, sellotape, straws. Cutting shapes out of paper. Everyone born in the UK will have done these things as a kid. But in 2025, creating and using music, photogr...

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Yikes it's March and I'm only posting January's books now! Gotta go fast! A Fire Upon The Deep - This was great! A 600 page space opera spanning billions of years and thousands of light years which had been on my wishlist for a few years but which got bought for me at Christmas by complete chance. Thi...

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I've been hacking Firefox CSS to make the "Back" button bigger since 2004. Here's the latest version, so that you can have small toolbar buttons except for the Back button, which for obvious Fitt's law reasons, you want to be bigger b...

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This is from the web-based RSS reader I use, which apparently does not always escape content quite right. Gotta love that <marquee> tag! With thanks to

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OK fine, I cracked. If you install my extension you can now get random pictures of dogs instead of US news on the BBC website. It uses https://placedog.net/ to provide the dog photos. Installation instructions are at the bottom of my last post. It takes...

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I think that 24/7 news is a modern-day scourge, and one of its corollaries in the UK is the overdue prominence given to US news. I use the BBC News website when I'm trying to find out what's going on, but I'd prefer that the coverage was of countries within three thousand miles. I used Copilot to help me bash together an extension for both Chrome and Firefox which simply removes U...

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Endpoint: I now have a household music streaming server with native apps on android and iphone, a web client and desktop client. I could put it on the internet to use when I'm out and about if I wanted to. Very cool! In my browser it looks like this:

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