Category Archives: Web Technology

My first stab at self-interview

In my last post I mentioned The Setup. This is my attempt to answer the questions. Who are you and what do you do? I’m Andy, and I work for IT Services at the University of Birmingham in a Service … Continue reading

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GoogleCL

I really like the idea of GoogleCL, and think it has a lot of potential to make my life easier, seeing as I use a fair few google products (specifically Google Calendar which I use to organise my whole life). … Continue reading

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New ways of doing old things

This weekend I decided to try and use different tools to perform my usual computer-based tasks. Yesterday, I tried to do everything in Mac OS X (Leopard), and also tested out Thunderbird 3. I reckon I could live with a … Continue reading

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The move to Google Reader

For a good few years I’ve been using Livejournal as a feed reader, with the idea being that if I was reading what my friends were up to anyway, I might as well intersperse it with news and other things … Continue reading

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Various technology related ramblings

I was going to write a post about the iPad, but I think most of what I wanted to say has been expressed in quite a few other places. Largely, I think it looks pretty, but the lack of customisation … Continue reading

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Setting up a quick and easy virtual web server

I did a fair bit of work on this about a year ago, and then never got round to writing it up. What I was trying to achieve was to have a minimal virtual server running in VirtualBox, which could … Continue reading

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Moving to Google Apps

I’d considered moving my email to Google Apps for a while. Largely because most of the webspace I have here is taken up with this blog, and I found myself having to use complicated backup methods to ensure I didn’t … Continue reading

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Synching Firefox data using Mozilla Weave

I think I might have already written about Mozilla Weave, but as there is a new version out today I think it warrants a mention. Weave does one small thing, but does it very well. That small thing is that … Continue reading

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Some useful Google Wave links

The Complete Guide to Google Wave Lots of Google Wave bots  Hopefully the first link will give people more of an idea what it is all about, and the second link will give some idea of the scope of what … Continue reading

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A brief life update

This week I’ve largely been: Listening to the new albums by The Flaming Lips, Atlas Sound, Charlotte Hatherley and Broadcast (all of which I’m really enjoying) Updating my main workstation to Ubuntu 9.10 Learning about Google Wave Trying to juggle … Continue reading

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