Open source

Open source citizenship looks at why some companies can’t easily contribute to the open source movement. I think that government is likely to be the driver here. All the projects I’m working on at the moment require any software produced (where possible)...

Jon Udell and blog searching

XPath search of Jon’s Radio sees Jon Udell making the most of structured markup. As he says, there is no easy way to create any of this in normal blog publishing tools. It’s a shame because it rocks! I can probably hack some of this stuff in Macro Express,...

Ad blocking for Firebird

Ad blocking for Firebird. Install it in ~/.mozilla/[userid]/[random]/chrome/ or your windows alternative.

What’s starting you up?

Startups – Full list allows you to check what all those random things are that are starting up on your PC.

Disposable email addresses

Mailinator( is a neat spin on the disposable email address conundrum. It has caused me to think: we have to legislate against spam if we want to rebuild email as a medium.