August 05, 2005
Jon Udell on del.icio.us
Jon Udell has an interesting screen-shot and voice over demonstration of how he uses the bookmarking database service del.icio.us (see also the story links in top right column of this blog).
weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/delicious.html
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August 01, 2005
Catching up with the Scottish news
Scotland has been rather boring recently, which from the perspective of the (probably spurious) Chinese curse “May You Live in Interesting Times” is undoubtedly a good thing. Since the G8 meeting at Gleneagles we have had the usual football news, murders and farcical (though tragic) failings of the National Health Service. Nevertheless a few things have been happening and it’s time to start catching up with them …
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July 01, 2005
Boris Johnson succumbs to Godwin's Law
Boris Johnson’s blog is sadly the latest to succumb to Godwin’s Law: ‘as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one’. (There are a number of unchecked facts there as well.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law
www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2005/06/whydothesem.html#comments
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April 14, 2005
A Message from Albia
I am enjoying Hugo Kent’s ‘Message from Albia … a country just like Britain, but worse’.
The blog chronicles the affairs of Prime Minister Kiznya Schlop of the Noy Krep Proti, his friend and rival the Finance Minister Bragdny Door, Zavlov Nizder, the leader of the Nyesti Proti, Prince Yusslez, the heir to the throne, and many others.
Zavlov Nizder is introduced in the ‘Albia Gazetteer’: “Once seen as a hardline rightwinger and the driving force behind the controversial Pole Tax (under which anyone of Polish decent entering Albia was required to pay a flat 500 pahnd fee). Since becoming leader of his party, Mr Nizder has sought to give himself a more human image (no small task for someone who casts no reflection in mirrors and has a deep aversion to garlic, sunlight and sharpened wooden fence-posts) and has recently discovered a lifelong passion for Skowz FC football club and an abiding interest in Morris dancing.”
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March 19, 2005
White House press pass
A blogger has been given a White House Press pass for the first time! Congratulations to FishBowl DC!
channels.lockergnome.com/rss/archives/news/20050316bloggetswhitehousepresspass.phtml
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30913FC35590C748CDDAA0894DD404482