Well, Apple announced their brand new iPhone yesterday. Since I wrote an entry about it on 6th August 2006, when I thought it might be about to come out, I decided I'd better do a mini follow-up: Not to jump on the bandwagon, rather, to redirect those who've searched for 'iPhone' and landed here. So, without further ado... My personal opinions Before it became reality, my favourite things about the iPhone ...

In essence, my hosts experienced a series of hardware problems, so all my sites disappeared and my email addresses stopped working. On Thursday, 9th November, the hosting came back, sans content. Ian & I contacted our hosts who restored as much as they could. On Friday, 10th November, I had the exciting task of restoring the vast majority of my content from scratch: My database (for entries, comments etc), my ...

Summary: How to keep up-to-date with information on the Web, without clicking from site to site. You can browse headlines from lots of different sites in one place on your computer; with no spam or viruses. Plus, unsubscribe immediately whenever you want. Read: What is RSS? As part of Bright Resources: free Guide to Technology for Technophobes, I've written a straightforward definition of RSS & web feeds, including the ...

I've been thinking about 'making technology mainstream' for a while now, ever since reading the Publishing 2.0 article, Yahoo Tech Is Tech For the Rest of Us. From my experiences working in a government organisation and for a non-profit organisation, I know that many (if not most) people find working with technology a battle, never knowing when it will suddenly crash or fail in some other way. The most ...