When new technology gets old

by | Jan 25, 2007 | Technology

Technology moves very fast these days (Cybil Fawlty, specialised subject ‘the bleeding obvious’).Not so many years ago, well, 26 years actually, I had a ZX81 and it was the pinnacle of home computing. And, believe me, it was fab. Thing is, it has no...

Snap!

by | Jan 24, 2007 | Technology

My reader(sic) may notice that I have added Snap to my site and blog (if you have no idea what this is, hover over an external link and you’ll see). I suppose there are many arguments with regard to its usefulness but for now the novelty of it is tipping towards...

Convergence, Information, Learning and Semantics

by | Jan 15, 2007 | Technology

Hope the subject line didn’t put you off, couldn’t think of anything suitably pithy to summarise what I wanted to write about.Lets get the background out of the way. We have the Internet crammed with great information repositories (and even more rubbish...

Stumble – You Know You Want To

by | Jan 2, 2007 | Technology

As someone would have said if he were still alive, the Internet is big. Very big. (he may have even said it while he was alive, he was like that). I would add that, if you’re not careful, it can be pointlessly big. Lets face it, the way most of us use the...

Covert Spam Conspiracy

by | Dec 16, 2006 | Technology

Users of GMail will know that it gives a single text link at the top of the mail, usually in context of what is going on on the page. This is a news story or other item of interest. The strange thing is that when you are in your ‘Spam’ folder deleting out...

Beavering away…

by | Nov 20, 2006 | Technology

Not posted for a while. Its been a bit hectic. I’ve also started work on a new design for scott.liddell.com. I’ve unashamedly been inspired by the excellent design work on the CSS Zen Garden. Its fair to say that my CSS skills aren’t exactly flying...