Ah, but in the good old days (in Scotland, at least) we used to have to earn our sweeties by singing a song, telling a joke or otherwise entertaining the...
Note: forwarded message attached. ... What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos Simon Phipps: I have had my problems with Hertz over the years,...
How to Use Flickr Book Cover My friend Richard Giles' book about using Flickr is finished and heading towards production - the jacket has made it to Amazon,...
An article in Saturday's New York Times continued the reactionary rejection of the intellectual establishment against Wikipedia. The article makes some fine...
One of the highlights for me at SXSWi recently was listening to Jimmy Wales interviewing Craig Newmark. Jimmy Wales is the founder of the Wikipedia online...
Looking at the list of the highest-paying search terms on Google AdWords doesn't instantly inspire delight in the service. Who exactly is paying Google the...
I've just finished reading "Dawkins' God" [ UK | US ] , a long-overdue book by scientist-turned-theologian Professor Alister McGrath of Oxford University. As I...
[http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=498932006] Here's a journalist who just writes what he's told by the music industry - Adam Pasick of Reuters : The...
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060845392/645/] I've not had a "Lent book" - a book intended for reading as a spiritual exercise in the days leading...
Just ... can't ... help .... myself ... , , , . Seems working at home can be expensive. Actually (and to fend off a little of the inevitable tut-tutting from...
Mono Lake, California I've been in love with Mono Lake high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California ever since I first saw it from the air many years ago....
width=150 border=1 align="right" hspace=7 vspace=5 />Having caught another track from her in the SXSW Showcase, I finally snapped and bought the Polly Paulusma...
[This was written originally by Francis Stonor Saunders. Frances Stonor Saunders is the former arts editor of The New Statesman, author of The Cultural Cold...
[This was written originally by Francis Stonor Saunders. Frances Stonor Saunders is the former arts editor of The New Statesman, author of The Cultural Cold...
Well, not exactly, but that's the last day to register your concern for Mono Lake , please consider commenting right now. -- Posted by webmink to WebMink at...
Footnote for those travelling to Brazil: Avoid Varig for the time being. They are in administration, and flights are a mess. My São Paulo to Porto Alegre...
On Tim's recommendation I've been listening to the CBC3 Podcast for a while now and today heard Children of the CPU performing Firefly [yes, that link is...
You know I like her music already, of course, but Imogen Heap has a new single on iTMS US. Curiously it's a remix of "Goodnight and Go" but the B-Side is a new...
Is Apache Derby, the SQL database written in Java, the answer to allowing web applications to run offline? David Berlind of ZDNet thinks so, and he's pointing...
It's not just people who steal software who have to worry - when you buy a Microsoft product, you're buying a lifetime of fear of audit and legal persecution....
As of now the OpenDocument specification, which defines the file formats used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and more, is now an international standard, ISO/IEC...
I don't know how much of it is just people being kind, but I've had loads of people look at my photographs and say "you should sell these". So, following my...
Yosemite In case you wonder why went so quiet over the last week, it was becuase I was staffing JavaOne over in San Francisco. It was a busy week and if you...
I've not mentioned music for a while so here's some (all the links are iTunes US), and it's showing my hidden Country side. First up is the new Dixie Chicks...
The ever-useful 3Hive got me to take another look in my music library today when they published links to music by Psapp . I already had their wonderful track...
When I was in the Bay Area last week, I did something I had been intending to do for maybe ten years. Driving along I-280, I had often noticed a brown...
I've had a few people comment that the links in the stream at www.webmink.net are a bit overwhelming so I've suspended the feed from my del.icio.us bookmarks...
The UK remembered 7 July 2005 this week, and in recognition of that I'm offering you a book recommendation. There's an unusual, independent book shop near us,...
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