December 2010
2 posts
Scrivener 2.0: My month-long test drive | Jamie... →
Socialite - All your social networks in one... →
Everything social and feedy in one app. Cheap, too.
October 2010
2 posts
Time Machine & Network Drive. | Lone Gunman →
Gregable.: Why you should know just a little Awk →
Awk looks easier and more useful (for text-file manipulation) than I could ever have imagined.
September 2010
7 posts
PasswordMaker →
Thing for generating secure passwords, based on a master password and (usually) URL components.
Wiring Java Applications with Spring —... →
CycleStreets » Cycle journey planner » Powerscroft... →
Interesting route home to work. Saving it here in case it generates a different route the next time I go there.
Advanced DAO programming →
I think I need to read this.
daoexamples - Related information →
Could be useful in getting our data access into some kind of sanity.
Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell... →
How good scripts get turned into bad movies.
Ginger's Bread - Ginger’s Bread – 143 →
May 2010
5 posts
Guardian Weekend short story competition | Books |... →
Singularity Magazine →
Richard (Rick) Findlay (from A215 & A363)’s new mag, due to launch in July, I believe.
Kurt Vonnegut - Eight rules for writing fiction -... →
William Shunn : Manuscript Format : Short Story →
How to format a manuscript.
Guidelines | Redstone Science Fiction →
Another new SF magazine. Hooray!
September 2009
13 posts
Southpaw Journal - Submission Guidelines →
An online literary magazine with an anit-SF bent. Still, you can’t have too many possible markets.
Submissions | Crossed Genres →
SF crossed with the genre of the month.
New Scientist: Flash fiction competition 2009 - 16... →
New Scientist flash-fiction comp. Closing 2009-10-15
BBC sports blueprint →
The danger of strangers on the internet →
Ha!
CeciliaTan.com →
This is something very like how I’d like my front page to look. Only she uses an imagemap.
George Orwell, "Politics and the English... →
I’m sure I’ve already got this boomark somewhere now.
EUSci – The Edinburgh University Science Magazine... →
SF short-story competition with an Edinburgh theme or link. For 1st Feb 2010.
How to Organize Your WordPress Blogroll Links? →
eMusic Download Manager incompatible with iTunes... →
Fix for problem with eMusic Download Manager and iTunes 9. But I’m not sure about actually using the settings it suggests.
10 Most Wanted Category Hacks and Plugins for... →
Some useful stuff in here, especially about selecting and excluding categories.
Full Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailer » BSCreview →
8 Useful and Interesting Bash Prompts – Make Tech... →
August 2009
6 posts
Girl Genius Online Comics! →
More webcomics (this one a recent Hugo winner) *sigh*.
Pure Digital Evoke Flow internet radio • Register... →
Stross-recommended DAB/FM/WiFi radio.
Glipper - clipboard manager for GNOME →
Glipper is a clipboardmanager for GNOME
Mocks Aren't Stubs →
Article on testing, by Martin Fowler.
Scary Go Round :: Mo/Tu/Th/Fr Comic by John... →
More webcomics. This one’s British, unusually.
Scary Go Round :: Mo/Tu/Th/Fr Comic by John... →
More webcomics. This one’s British, unusually.
July 2009
9 posts
8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast | News |... →
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing →
Shared online documents in realtime, they claim.
girls with slingshots →
Simplenote →
This is the notes app that syncs with the iPhone
Some useful info about charset encoding in XHTML... →
But it’s worse than that. Now character encoding information can be in two places: within the XML document itself, and within the Content-Type HTTP header. If the information is in both places, which…
PC Pro: Product Reviews: LaCie d2 Network (1TB) →
LaCie d2 Network (1TB)
PC Pro: Product Reviews: QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS →
QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS
LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Write Your Own Linux... →
Could be a useful way to learn Python.
Big Mouth Strikes Again | Arts and Culture |... →
June 2009
9 posts
Steven Wells Says Goodbye | In Extremis | News and... →
Swells’s last column.
Great hotel, friendly staff, excellent location -... →
This is the place we’re staying in for first three nights in Venice.
Casa Martini Inn and Bed and Breakfast Venice... →
The hotel where we’re staying’s site.
Waldensians and Methodists in Venice →
The Absent Willow Review — Tales of Horror,... →
Another online mag of SF, F & H.
BrewDog Beer - Award winning brewery →
If Warren Ellis rates it, their Punk IPA must be good.