Category Archives: Software

I have been having really strange intermittent problems with the net these last few days. At first I thought it was a problem with my blog, then with my server. I just could not post anything longer than about 256 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Because I’m thinking about groups, socially, and biologically, and because I’m meant to be writing about them, too, I found myself reading Clay Shirky’s latest. One of those delicious moments when you discover why someone has a reputation for worthwhile … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have been fiddling with the style sheet for most of today. The results should be hardly noticeable, but if all the stuff in the right-hand column now is too large, tell me, and I’ll try and work out why. Continue reading →

This is of limited interest if you don’t make web sites, but wonderful news if you do: at least I’d rather use this service than load my computer with three more browsers and then have to buy a mac as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have just realised what the next useful enhancement to a word processor would be. I want somethng that tracks my eye movement on screen, and a key combination which will jump the cursor to where I am looking. That’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This idea might be going somewhere — I don’t know. But Danny O’Brien, at least, wrote back as if he thought it had some merit: Pay me $50, and I’ll do it. Seriously: it’s a great idea, and while similiar … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ben Hammersley invented the lazy web, a way of asking people if they’ve already solved your problem. It’s flashy, and seems to work for a small subset of highly connected geeks but it’s never going to solve the real problem … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This will only work if you are using IE, but it is only fun if you’re not. If you want to know how it works, or what it does, press “more”. Continue reading →

The latest milestone release of OpenOffice 1.1 beta has actually got the regex search working (and it has fixed all the annoying bugs I had found in the beta 1 release, which broke the word count and all sorts of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s a hard life being an Opera bigot. Even Mozilla users sneer at you; I’m not sure why, since I am funding an independent and genuinely competitive company, and they are sponging off AOL Time Warner. Perhaps they can afford … Continue reading → Continue reading →