15 ways to leave your windows

Excellent Joel on why there cannot be any sensible reasons for having 15 different ways of almost-but-not-quite leave Windows Vista.

Some thinking on Autism

Interesting article from Simon Baron-Cohen on whether assoicative mating (where people with similar traits are more likely to mate) plays a role. My grandpa was a meticulous film developer and mini thing manufacturer. My father hoards wood. So I think I’m...

e-Gov news

Some useful things around the e-Gov space:Tom Steinberg has hit the No.10 website with a petitioning system. Excellent stuff – I’ve signed a few of them. Good to see No.10 experimenting with this sort of approach – let’s see how the feedback on...

IE6 and IE7 together

I’ve tried a number of ways of getting IE6 and IE7 to run simultaneously. Most of the options appear not to work. However, the multiple IE installer seems to have worked perfectly.

Clearing the digital divide

Nielsen makes a compelling argument that the digital divide is a) real and b) comprised of many sub-issues. The things that leapt out at me here: i) write simply (for low literacy) and ii) write large (for older people). Empowerment? I don’t think there’s...