Gordon’s Place

Since I knocked up that search plugin for IE, I’ve been thinking a bit about search / the internet in general. Well, actually I’ve been thinking about wikipedia specifically. These days I’m using wikipedia all the time. It’s become my default search engine. If I’m looking for information, then most of the time, wikipedia will [...]

It turns out that you can subscribe to iCal feeds in Outlook. All you need is Remote Calendar from SoureForge ( and probably this and this from Microsoft ) and you’ll be able to setup a subscription from Outlook. If you have the calendar download into your main Outlook calendar, then it will also end [...]

There are three novels sitting on my desk, all newly arrived from Amazon. I couldn’t work out which one to start on first ( kid in the sweet shop syndrome ), so I read the first sentence of each. Which do you fancy? The first one hooked me.

Some hours before dawn Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, [...]

I’d just finished converting that moon shot into a wallpaper for my PSP when it occurred to me to “tag surf” flickr for other PSP wallpaper. Check it out. I especially like this guy’s shirt.

Steady….

My mate Nigel has just started blogging. Nigel and I have been working together on what we are both convinced will become the Next Big Thing over the last couple of months. It’s too early to go giving any details but watch both of these spaces….

I have a voucher for £10 off any wine order worth £50 or more at www.tesco.com. It expires on 31/10/05 and since I’ve just ordered 3 cases of wine using another discount voucher I had, I’m not going to use it. So it’s up for grabs for anyone who wants it. One condition – leave [...]

86 out of 250! It would appear I’ve got some watching to do.

I know I’ve not been posting much recently. That’s mainly because I’ve been doing a lot of reading and a fair bit of hacking instead. Look for some book reviews to follow in due course, but in the meantime here’s a selection of the stuff I’ve been getting stuck into recently –
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