Category Archives: Net stories

I was wandering around net and found this map of Swedish bloggers. Clicking on the smallest red pimple in the heart of nowhere I was whisked to Sorsele (see photo above) where the first snow has just fallen. However, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A silly answering machine. I will at some stage put together a feed for the Troll blog. For the moment I am happy to have it looking fairly OK. Continue reading →

Silly company names are the postal service equivalent of spam filters. Just as I always give the Independent’s City Road postcode on forms which want to know mine when it’s none of their business — and the fax machine’s number … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Honest downloading” is exactly the term for alternatives to straight-up file-sharing theft from unwilling artists. It’s not just a matter of legality. I know it’s perfectly legal to offer a DRM-crippled subscription service. But I’m not going to use one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t know about the States, but the dominant classical CD label in England is Naxos, who more or less invented the paperback CD here — costs £5.00 and made by Lithuanians. I bought quite a lot of them when … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Three names to avoid – Internet Buyer Direct, Student computers, Communication4. They all seem to be the same firm man, operating from somewhere1 in the West Country. They sell refurbished notebooks and other computers, also a wide range of laptop … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An astonishing piece of research, found through Bruce Schneier which shows that a sound recording of a typist at work for fifteen minutes can be analysed to reveal almost every word they typed. The trick is that the keys on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Librarything is a combination lookup tool for bibliographic information, a way to tag and catalogue your books collection, and a social service, where you can browse other people’s libraries. Type in a few identifying words from a book’s spine, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is really strange: this morning I had six messages from MT blacklist in my inbox reporting suspected new comment spam. It was certainly spam: six comments all saying i come from <A Href=”http://www.google.com”>best search engine</A> http://www.google.com and all apparently … Continue reading → Continue reading →

all you people who were told by some search engine that my site had the answer to your questions: 1: lincoln cathedral disputes 1995 1: andrew brown darwin 1: katrina skepper flake 1: worst or worse 1: who is the … Continue reading → Continue reading →