Google have run some stats to tell us about the quailty of HTML generally found on the web. One for later…
Get a log just like flickr’s. I suspect I’ll wind up using it on my new ala.sda.ir site, which may give me the design cues I’ve been looking for…
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Unlimited webspace, domains, and data transfer. Seems a bit too good to be true, to be honest, but one to bear in mind when my 34sp contract runs out.
Thinking about large scale storage solutions again, for various reasons. (And also that I could do with a small, portable, backup device.)
I’m endlessly fascinated by “community design”, and this is a note to myself to try and write myself up a spec for a set of functions to produce a useful commenting system that would not require a huge amount of work by moderators.
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A basic primer in typography. I want to get a bit more into type for a design I’m contemplating, so that’s handy…
java based Commodore 64 emulator, with a load of classic games available to play on-line.
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Where you can find me on-line this year:
Words:
alasdair.biz – my workblog. New media, technology, and general digital culture shit, plus the odd link I just think is funny. Updated most weekdays. LJ feed available at als_workblog. RSS feed at http://www.alasdair.biz/feed.
black-ink.org – short fictions. Only updated a few times a year, when I can’t get a thought to sod off without writing it down. Every so often, I promised myself I’ll do more, but I never seem to. Once I get the LJ feed reconnected, it’ll be at black_ink_feed. RSS feed at http://www.black-ink.org/feed.
alasdair.livejournal.com – personal life, hobbies, random crap, social interaction. RSS feed at http://alasdair.livejournal.com/data/rss.
Pictures:
Electricana – my main photoblog. An image or two most weeks, assuming I’ve had time to take the camera somewhere. RSS feed at http://electricana.livejournal.com/data/rss.
Flickr – the flickr account I use to hold images/power the photoblog. It gets a few more photos, if I’ve put a set up, and generally has a bit more organisation, but lacks the commentary/decent comments functionality of the LJ version. RSS feed at http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=19821795@N00&format=rss_200.
Electricana.org – my portfolio site. Cherry picked images (and not many of them) from my photoblog, the ones I really feel represent the best of my photo work. RSS feed at http://www.electricana.org/index.php?x=rss.
Other:
last.fm – my last.fm account. Just in case anyone cares what I’ve been listening to lately.
upcoming.org – (some of) my social diary. Things I am (thinking of) doing. Gigs, shows, general stuff.
I’m in the process of building one website that’ll bring a lot of this together in one place, although I can’t think of a good domain name at the moment. Anyone got any suggestions?
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A bit of a brute-force-and-ignorance approach – I’m pretty sure it can be done more elegantly within the DOM, but it works, and it’s quick and easy.
I think I’m going to start killing someone. Can we not just say “the next generation of websites” or something?
I wonder how well this works for both The Deck and those that advertise on it. It’s certainly an interesting idea – ads that the network is willing to stand behind, from sites like that could potentially carry a lot of weight with viewers…
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Measure your favourite chocolate bars now. That way, when you grow up, you’ll know if they’ve really gotten smaller or not.
Anyone got any other similarly useful tips?
Which it seems he intends to use to talk about the semantic web. Which is a bit techy and dull, but nonetheless an important topic. Which is sort of what you’d expect from the man, I’d guess.
(because diaries are not logs of things found on the web, obviously). So I quite like this article, which suggests that “blogging” is simply part of the normal process writing these days, and that the publication tools really don’t matter.
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He really didn’t like the film. At all. I wasn’t a huge fan either (though I hated ti a little less than him), and this made me cry with laughter.
65 quid for 40 mins training. File under “how fucking stupid are these people?”
Like Mousetrap (the game), but for your fridge. Must buy some soon.
In shock news, it tunrs out that people respond better to websites that look nice and professional. Still, now scientists have proved it with science, so that’s OK.
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Outlaw, the Alabama 3’s club night is on on Friday night, 10pm ’til 6am, in Brixton. Anyone up for a combination of gig and club night, a little bit country, a little bit techno?