Archive for December, 2005

Del.icio.us bookmarks

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

del.icio.us has been heralded as a classic example of the sort of application that is “Web 2.0” but until recently I could not really see the point of it—web-based bookmarks? However, having been something of a computing nomad these last few months, without permanent access to an always-on, always-connected server of my own, del.icio.us has […]

Return of the .sig quote

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

I love holidays. Today I finally found sometime to cook up a new way of putting a fun quote after my name in all of my emails. This regular feature of my electronic correspondence sadly disappeared when I upgraded to a new version of OS X; the new version of Apple Mail no longer seems […]

Flaming Pudding

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

Our flaming Christmas pudding proved a good opportunity to play with my new camera — I’ve finally gone digital!

Merry Christmas!

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Wow – it’s been nearly a month since I have blogged! Sadly, moving house, city and job in one go, plus all the usual Christmas excitement, has kept me quite busy these last few weeks… However, I do have some posts in the pipeline, and with the Christmas holidays now upon us, hopefully I will […]