Category: Internet

So following on from my post about the New Order Bluetooth ad the other day I’ve been trying to think of other possibilities using Bluetooth technology. Every year at work we entertain clients at the V Festival. I’d like to be able to use this technology to do something clever for them like this. A…

I’ve been playing with satellite photos for the last couple of days. First of all there’s the new satellite photos to be found on Google Maps which are lovely IF you happen to live in the US (or at least want to see satellite photos of the US). But then I found out about NASA’s…

Good news – Virgin Radio has started podcasting! Bad news – we’ve coined the term “podvertising“…

Over the last couple of weeks, Gmail has changed around how it highlights the invites you have left quite a lot. Now, all of sudden, instead of having six invites, I have fifty! Are Google entering a new phase of opening up Gmail? This new openness suggests that an invite is no longer a valuable…

Is Trackback Spam the new Comment Spam? Worth noting that since I introduced the “you can’t comment until you log in” thing with Typekey, I haven’t had any Comment Spam at all. Mind you, I’ve not had many comments either…

A great initiative to stop comment spam has been the introduction of the rel=”nofollow” tag that Google has come up with and other major search engines and blogging software vendors are supporting. The reason for comment spam is to get yourself ranked high on search engines page ranks. But including “nofollow” on the link means…

Well I’ve tentatively re-enabled commenting on the site. It requires you to have a Typekey username so you’ll have to go away and sign up for one if you’ve got something you want to say to me. And as a result, I will also want a copy of your email address. Be sure that I’ll…

Wow. This article scares the hell out of me in regard to comment spam that I’ve been suffering. And it may well be the case that something to do with comment spam was the cause of my massive file issues. Although that may have been a broken RSS link. In the meantime, I’ve got to…

Check out this Carl Hiaasen piece from today’s Miami Herald. Jon Stewart showed that clip on his show earlier this week, but I think we in the UK have missed it (aren’t torrents wonderful?). Rumsfield was so out of his depth in that arena it was a joke – and he appeared with the ridiculous…

I’ve got some kind of hosting problems at the moment – it seems that this page is being recorded as somewhere in the region of up to 100MB which kinda kills my hosting. I’m looking into the problem ASAP, but in the meantime, please bear with me, and I apologise in advance for any outtages.…

I’ve been spending waaaay too much time chasing down elusive prizes in the Ebay treasure hunt. Complicated to play, yet strangely compulsive… Been looking in forums and chat rooms.

Someone more cynical than me might think that Apple agreeing to carry the new Band Aid single for its standard 79p price, but donating an additional 70p for each sale they make, is something of a marketing gimmick. It’s worth noting that the official site sells it for £1.99 rather than the £1.49 Band Aid…