Archive for April, 2007

Tumblr is awesome

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I’m loving Tumblr - its a really simple blog platform that you can plugin your various feeds to, creating a nice combination of a lifestream and a personal blog. It is a study in usability - truly outstanding. It has just enough features to create a brilliant product, but not too many to make the [...]

Teamwork?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

A geek’s definition of teamwork that I just read on a Crunchboard listing: “* Works well alone and with a team, including experience with a change control system such as SVN or CVS”. I’m sure they don’t mean it to sound like they believe that a good team player is a person who can use [...]

Measuring not grouching

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

I’ve been moaning about Dreamhost’s uptime recently, threatening to switch. The problem is that no-one else that I’ve ever heard of seems to have anything that’s quite right, apart from Media Temple, which is double the price.
So, in an effort to be able to stay with DH, I’m measuring uptime this month using Pingdom’s free [...]

Alan Johnston

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

The BBC is asking bloggers to put a banner on their sidebar as part of its campaign to get Alan Johnston, the Gaza correspondent who was kidnapped over a month ago, released. I’ve done that (see for instructions), and I’ve also signed the petition.
I’d encourage everyone else to do the same. Whilst it doesn’t actually [...]

Escape

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

I’m announcing, Peter-style, that I’m definitely offline until next Monday. Like him, I’ve written some posts which will be published next week, so GizBuzz won’t be completely without content.
I quite enjoy having absolutely no access to the internet - on some levels I don’t give a monkeys about any of the top stories on TechMeme. [...]

Hosting

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

I’m not happy with Dreamhost at all. There was at least an hour’s downtime (quite possibly more) across all my sites (and all DH’s sites), affecting not only personal sites like this one, but the whole of the Oratos Network, and Klaxis.
My Dreamhost account expires in August, and I’ve decided not to renew it unless [...]