New spatial reference standards

Egads! Some signs of truly joined up government around spatial references. Why is it important? Because postcodes don’t uniquely identify anything, and aren’t necessarily useful even when they do.

How to rate an album on just one song

Charles Arthur is absolutely right: you’ve heard a song and like it and think “shall I buy the album”. If the song is the first one on the album, the album is rubbish. If the song is somewhere else, the album is likely to be OK. Think...

mini-GTD for Outlook

Simpler mini-GTD for outlook using seven folders. They don’t mention what purgatory is for, though. That’s quite fitting…

Build a Better DVR

Nice article on building a better PVR out of an Old PC. The link that was really interesting was to Slimserver which allows you to stream music over the net for free. Brilliant.

Google Local

More Google genius with maps and yellow pages and my local curry houses.

Google Print

They just keep on going. Google Print allows you to search the full text of books they’ve scanned in. Here’s a search for shared services that I’m working on at the moment.