by Tom | Jan 15, 2002 | General
Bugger! 6:21:39 PMApparently the UK is not a nation of hairy-handed sex fiends. 6:15:21 PMInstructions for yanks about how to speak to the English. 12:59:48 PMUnfortunate? 12:58:18 PMKevin Bacon: You’ve Got Mail. Researchers are using e-mail to test the notion...
by Tom | Jan 14, 2002 | General
Clunky but free spell checker for Windows. Based on the Aspell engine. Not bad, really. 6:19:32 PM Tools Directory for Radio UserLand 8.0 (was http://toolsdirectory.manilasites.com/directory/9 now broken). You can add functionality onto Radio by downloading and...
by Tom | Jan 11, 2002 | General
Great article on what to do about screen real estate. 4:46:42 PMSaltire: “Perhaps this was just a fluke (I doubt it), but I was on Yahoo! yesterday and noticed that they are now dropping in links to ads with the rest of their news stories.” Yuk 3:33:17...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2002 | General
Unix box as a wireless base station. Ross Finlayson has put together a good document on using a Unix box as an wireless network base station. Or, for another approach, there’s a seemingly good Windows management app for the Apple Airport base station available, as...
by Tom | Jan 9, 2002 | General
Cutbacks push dot-coms toward profits. Brutal layoffs and a sharp dose of fiscal discipline over the past year and a half are offering a surprising number of Web publishers the hope of profitability at one of the worst times on record for the sector. [CNET News.com]...
by Tom | Jan 8, 2002 | General
I didn’t know that the Ham and High was online. It led me to the details of the new Arsenal stadium development. Should be OK for us, I think. 5:26:38 PM Interesting paper on design misfits. Still not quite sure what they are, but it’s a useful summary of how things...