Yearly Archives: 2005

The Times has RSS feeds

Posted on October 7, 2005 by acb

I’ve been wanting them for years, since I loathe reading the paper. Apart from a couple of columnists, it’s tripe: I can see it turning into the Daily Express for people who don’t care about Diana. It’s a coarse, inaccurate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The durability of paper

Posted on October 7, 2005 by acb

Tim Bray, whose career has taken him from the OED to Sun Microsystems, is regarded as a huge XML evangelist. But there is a fascinating passage buried on his latest blog, where he was asked for advice by the people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Posting from Ooobasic

Posted on October 6, 2005 by acb

Well, I will be if this has actually worked … Which will enable all sorts of strange goodies, if it works. The really important thing is that it is extremely easy to draw dialog boxes in OOo basic; whereas in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Redesign

Posted on October 2, 2005 by acb

It’s that time of year: this winter’s colours come from a summer evening on the Vindelälv. It’s the first time I have managed to do a light-on-dark design that looks good to me1 and, as always, the trick is to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Testing

Posted on October 2, 2005 by acb

This is a test, probably of very little interest to anyone but me, of a blogging button for Openoffice, that will send the current document up to an MT blog, using Textile formatting, and making the headline automatically from the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Bloody Michael Crichton

Posted on September 29, 2005 by acb

Owing to a tragic scheduling error, his testimony before the senate came in time for the Gdn’s front page, which meant that my carefully crafted thumbsucking was thrown away in favour of a report from someone who had the vulgarity … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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de mortuis

Posted on September 28, 2005 by acb

a memorable obit in the Daily Telegraph today of M Scott Peck, the self-help guru, which closes with two paragraphs that could hardly be improved: Latterly he suffered from impotence and Parkinson’s Disease and devoted himself to Christian songwriting, at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The most disgusting story

Posted on September 28, 2005 by acb

I have done for years is in G2 today. One snag I hadn’t foreseen — the copy was delayed by an hour when it got caught in the company’s spam filter. UPDATE What I originally filed is below the fold … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Petrol prices, again.

Posted on September 26, 2005 by acb

James Surowiecki reports that there is a serious movement in some American states to suspend all “gas” taxes until — well, I don’t know, because things are never going to go back to what was normal in 1999. There used … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Administrivia

Posted on September 22, 2005 by acb

I have a sort of review of John Battelle’s Google book up at the First Post, which is an interesting shot at a commercial site run by two real journalists (and old colleagues) Mark Law and David Jenkins. I’ve also … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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