The Independent Online has a piece on Steve Jobs: The Guru Behind Apple.

TumbleTumble. Jack Mottram’s smart Tumblelog. Makes me feel all Web 0.9.

Pitchfork Media reports that a John Fahey tribute album is on the cards.

Cassette Jam ‘05. Microcassette nostalgia.

The Independent has a piece on the missing prologue to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Interviews with twenty-one scientists, including Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan were to be shown at the start of the film.

There’s a BBC News Online piece about Flock.

Imagine your e-mail could only receive and not send. It would not be much fun.

But for the first decade of web browsing it’s been just like that. You can read webpages but only if there are special add-ons can you interact with them.

What? Blogging tools that use web standards have existed for years.

Now somebody has launched a web browser that is designed to let you write to the web just as easily as you read it.

Most web browsers are designed to let you do this. Whilst Flock is a another good browser, it seems to me that it’s hardly as revolutionary as this article suggests.

Can You Trust Wikipedia?. A panel of experts test a number of Wikipedia entries for their accuracy and quality. Of course, they can always improve the articles themselves.

Still working on a few tweaks to the design, so things will look a little odd for a while.

JOBO Giga Mini. They really should market this as a digital ‘image tank’, JOBO used to make the best film developing tanks money could buy.

The one, the only, photograph of Earth. “Virtually every picture showing the full Earth derives from one photograph taken in 1972. Yet hardly anybody notices this.”

Public Information Films 1945-1951
_{An archive of post-war public information films}

It seems like much has happened since back when I used to write more regularly. Then, I would write about new Web related happenings with interest. Now, things pass by and I can’t seem to generate enough enthusiasm to gather my thoughts and write about them. I’ve started so many little projects to entertain myself on rainy weekends I’ve lost count. One of them has involved trying get all my posts and all your comments into Textpattern MySQL tables so I don’t have to contend with my clunky home-brew blogging system anymore. This is proving to be rather difficult for some reason, but I’m sure I’ll manage it at some point.