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A really excellent idea, outlined here, of how The Washington Post intends to make an improved version of a blogroll by:- A link to members’ blogs will be featured in our Sponsored Blogroll index, giving your writing promotional space on the washingtonpost.com home page and giving you an introduction to an audience of 8 million […]

Amazing site for the teens and slightly above just look at this river of comments pouring in from its users, in real time. Another Myspace or YouTube in the making. The site is still privately owned “Sugar Publishing is a privately-owned media company focused on creating the best online editorial and community for trendsetting, passionate, […]

Its seems true we are all going mad. This BA plane was forced to turn back “Security teams on the ground advised that the plane could continue safely but after 90 minutes angry passengers complained and the pilot returned to the UK”. What ever were those passengers thinking off? and what about the poor guy […]

Just discovered LibraryThing. Fantastic site that allows you to enter all your books by ISBN number or author and title. First 200 books are free to enter (I’m now at 150) and I would say at least 300 more to go. The really cool thing is that you can generate clouds either by tag, author […]

As spoken by Britain’s outspoken Ex- Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray:- “None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a planeticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency ofthe UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn’t be a plane bomber forquite some time.” […]

Windows Live Writer seems to be getting some good reviews. I thought I would do a search for “Temporary Post Used For Style Detection” in Google, As this is a sign that a blogger has been using it. Today it gives 147 entries. Here is the search window,  I inserted it merely by doing a […]

Thanks to Techmeme I’ve just learned about this great new tool from Microsoft, The Windows Live Writer. I just finished making a post to my WordPress blog at www.geoffjones.net. It worked like a dream, especially the easy integration of images. Ellee is just going to love this when she is back from her hols. My […]

An excellent show by Ze Frank summing up fear and terror and the latest wave of idiocy sweeping the UK government.

Yesterday I visited tthe inner sanctum of the British political system, otherwise known as Portcullis House, this is where the most fortunate MP’s work in a modern office block with armed guards (Yep, like at Heathrow, we are all terrorists now) and a computer system that is so locked down even the poor MP’s struggle […]

What to do when your bank zaps you for penalty charges (click on post title for full story). “The Defendant has imposed charges of £30 each time the Claimant has exceeded his overdraft limit. These charges represent a penalty and do not accurately reflect the defendant’s administration costs. Further, they are contrary to the Unfair […]