Author: Carrie

  • Nominations time again – this week, podcasts

    I’m putting together a feature on tech podcasts, and as ever I’d appreciate any suggestions for must-listens – ideally web-related ones rather than “woo! iPods!”, heh.

  • Google makes its Office move

    Google’s rebranded Writely, linked it with its own Spreadsheets service and put the two of ’em together at Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Mmmm, catchy! In other Google news, rumours are predicting a Facebook acquisition – and apparently the firm is also working on “sharks with frickin’ laser beams”.

  • A passing thought

    If someone has a deep and abiding love of Volvos, Abba, Ikea, pine furniture and saunas, would that make them a Swede-ophile?

  • ID cards will cost £5.4 billion, and I’m a fecking pixie

    Tim does a lovely demolition of the government’s latest made-up numbers for the cost of ID cards: Quick numbers. 48 million or so adults, each having the card, the computers, the readers, the database, the taking of the biometrics etc etc etc. 5.4 billion? 112.50 per person over a decade? With all the changes that…

  • Smoking bans, again

    Looks like the Scottish Executive isn’t the only group of politicians acting like complete and utter bastards over smoking: the Department of Health is considering a Westminster council request that it should be allowed to create smoking “exclusion zones” outside bars, restaurants, clubs or workplaces so those caught smoking there could be punished. [Via Tim…

  • Is it because they is white (supremacists)?

    Didn’t see this in the papers: A FORMER British National Party member has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country. …62-year-old retired dentist David Bolus Jackson, of Trent Road, Nelson, was charged with similar offences. It has been reported that police discovered a rocket…

  • Waterstones

    …has a new site, and it’s really rather lovely. Not particularly interesting, but true.

  • Networking iTunes

    One for the Mac-heads: I want to network iTunes but I’m not sure of the best way to do it. Anyone experimented with various options and found a solution? This is what I want to do: I’ve got a powerbook upstairs and a Mac Mini under the telly, running Wi-Fi. I want to replace the…

  • FWDitOn: Digg for email

    According to TechCrunch, a new site aims to bring the Digg effect to email forwards: FWDitOn is a site that allows users to submit and rate emails that they find interesting, and higher rated emails go to the top of the popular area. The idea is to allow people to see the most popular fowarded…

  • You know you’ve been at the computer too long

    When you see this headline: Man plunged to death at sex party And assume the story involves one of these: [photopress:cup_plunger.jpg,full,pp_image]