Category Archives: Web Technology

Interesting things from Mozilla Labs

I rave a fair bit about Ubiquity, but there are also a few other things from Mozilla labs that look promising. Last night I installed Weave on a couple of my computers, and am actually very impressed. Weave takes your … Continue reading

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An easier way to share

Despite the fact that I don’t use Gmail as my primary point of contact, I do use most of Google’s other tools quite a lot. In particular, I’m a big fan of Google Calendar, Docs and Groups, and I use … Continue reading

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Exploring Suse Studio

I’ve had an account on http://susestudio.com/ for a few weeks now, but have only really had a couple of chances to play with it. The basic idea behind the site is that anyone should be able to create a customised … Continue reading

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Piping fortune into twidge

fortune | twidge update actually works as expected. Add cron to the mix, and you can automate random utterances to appear on twitter when you are away from your computer or otherwise engaged. More an amusement than anything useful, but … Continue reading

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Twidge

I’ve been after a command line based microblogging tool for ages. I think Twidge might be just what I need. The syntax to make a post is as follows: twidge update “whatever you want to post goes here” And before … Continue reading

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Another short experiment

Something else I’ve stumbled upon today is an extension that allows me to post straight to my blog from OpenOffice.org. This post is largely an attempt to get it to work, so I’ll not say anything more than that for … Continue reading

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Turning OpenOffice.org files into Wiki pages

This week I’ve been looking at a few OpenOffice.org extensions that might make my life easier. One that certainly will is the Sun Wiki Publisher. Basically it takes a document, logs in to a particular instance of Mediawiki, and converts … Continue reading

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Social networking workflow

This is how it works….. I post anything under 140 characters to identi.ca using the Ubiquity extension for Firefox. This then posts them to Twitter and Facebook, and adds them to the right hand menu of this blog using the … Continue reading

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A roundup of IRC clients

This is largely a response to a thread on an email list regarding IRC clients. I thought I’d make a list of what I use now, what I’ve used in the past, and what is actually out there. mIRC – … Continue reading

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Why static websites fail

I think the answer is in the question really. Static websites fail because they are static, and never change unless it is someone’s job or responsibility to change them. So many times I visit a web site related to some … Continue reading

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