"A report shows the rate of ozone destruction declining for the first time since CFCs were banned."

Phew! Me? I don't believe it for one minute.

"...in 2008, 40 percent of the 21 million Western Europeans who own business-centric mobile phones, 8.4 million users, will access their e-mail over their handsets. This figure is a considerable jump from less than 1 percent currently. Over the same period, the annual mobile service revenue generated by e-mail will increase from €49 million in 2003 to €2.9 billion."

Spam's gonna piss people off then, as paying for spam, rich in porno images is going to cost quite a bit to download.

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Someone from Scotland is looking for bloggers to take part in an experiment, for his PhD thesis about writing styles in blogs.

"I am going to be looking for trends in style, as the relate to the character of the author. By style I mean linguistic features such as those used by the stylistics community for authorship attribution, such as sentence length, word bigrams and trigrams, and parts-of-speech. And by character, I mean just that."

 Source: owrede_log; 31/07/03; 8:04:21 am.
1216 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 9:58:22 AM  . .
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Mac's got a nice new pick me up!

Changing the server. Here Mac bashes the old hard disk out. We would have done the job pretty quick had we the room to put the fan in. As it is we'll either need to rob a new case or hack saw a gap large enough for the fan.

1215 Also posted to: cybersaps , serviceBF . At: 3:23:36 PM  . .
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And so it happens. She's nearly grown up and left home. At the tender age of 4 years 317 days she's in her first school uniform. Bought this very day. The first thing she said when I opened the door to her was, "Daddy, I've got a school uniform. Mummy, can I try it on now?" And during an argument with Bradley, she started to bawl, I said, you can't do that you're too old now, you're in a school uniform." And she stopped!

1214 Also posted to: personal . At: 3:17:49 PM  . .
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I think we could have stayed here forever, listening to the small brass band in Telford's Town Park. Eating lollies, just letting the day take charge.		I managed to skirt past several other rides, as their owners were reaching out to Bradley and Esme to 'come on board.' I love waving to them every time they go around. And even though it must me boring for them they too like to see me waving, Bradley in particular thinks it a great wheeze, and chuckles every time he whizzes past his waving old man.

1213 Also posted to: personal . At: 3:11:28 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Back from hols to the big park

The day after coming back from holidays. Where do you think they wanted to go? Over the road onto the pub's car park, to ride their bikes. Bradley doesn't go very fast on his trike, a little bit faster going down this path, but not much, still he seems quite happy, well, he would, he's only just worked out how to peddle properly, been only a few months. I'd like Esme to try without stabilisers, but stupidly I said, 'you will crash.' Now, I meant... Well, she won't take them off. I'll have to wait till she forgets.

1212 Also posted to: personal . At: 2:57:20 PM  . .
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I've been trying to backtrack ping an article on MiFi, and damn, I've managed to spam their trackback four times.

How'd you manage that Steve? Well, It appears that you can only send a small amount of excerpt to MiFi as a track back or you'll get an error page from SQL like this. So, I figure that I'd try cutting down the size of the message, which worked but I still found an error message in my message table (see the image below). But this was because MiFi is sending back a general information page if you actually go to the ping URL stated for, I guess, any article. So I tried four times, then decided to make sure none had squirreled their way through... Arggg! FOUR! Oops. Gonna have to be more careful with this trackback melarkie. Soz Mat Howie ";->" Though I see others reporting the same.

1211 Also posted to: cybersaps . At: 4:45:03 PM  . .
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BBC: "The Pentagon is to set up an online trading market for bets on future terrorist attacks or major political developments."

They're talking about the Policy Analysis Market, which isn't open till 1 October. The Iowa Electronic Markets seems to be the well thought of prior art. "Research indicates that markets are extremely efficient, effective and timely aggregators of dispersed and even hidden information," says the Pentagon.

The discussion over at MiFi sounds supportive, mainly.

More background from bloomberg.

I think the logic's pretty good "using the expertise of the open market instead of relying on government agencies". Though whether it'll be ripped off, is IMO open; by betting that somebody would be assassinated, and then assassinating them... Not sure if this would be insider trading or market manipulation ";->" But they're only allowing 1,000 traders, by the look of it, so I suppose they'd be vetted (10,000 by 01/01/2004). And the medium sums involved are more sport than retirement to the Bahamas.

But what if unusual trading warns an enemy that their plan (aka "specific potential events of interest") has been rumbled? Or, rather, no unusual trading tell them that they haven't been rumbled! Well, just like the site says, "should prove as engaging as it is informative."

 Source: BBC News | Technology | World Edition; 29/07/03; 12:45:16 pm.
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BBC: "Electronic mail is playing such a key role in companies that most people start to get annoyed after just 30 minutes without e-mail access, the study found.

But spare a thought for the techies in computer support. About a fifth feared for their jobs if they did not get the e-mail system back up and running within a day."

When fellow workers come up to the sys admin with distorted faces, to complain, then the best method of dealing with them is to mirror their feelings of loss and woe, and to pull faces back at them. So says, my insider who's recently been confronted just so.

1209 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 2:57:17 PM  . .
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"Uday and Qusay Hussein had $100m in cash with them when they were killed by American forces in northern Iraq, a report says."

US-based news magazine Newsweek is not sure if it was for their own rescue, or to finance a guerilla war.

 Source: BBC News | In Depth | Conflict with Iraq | UK Edition; 28/07/03; 10:45:48 pm.
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4.) "The cool factor. These tablets evoke the future of hardware and easily wow the technology challenged in a meeting. As consultants and designers, that kind of mystique is as good an accessory as the black turtle neck and German accent."

Made me smile, had to blog it.

1207 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 2:40:55 PM  . .
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"Parser Loading Error Exception parsing: {E301} The value of attribute "dc:description" must not contain the '<' character."

Been testing my trackbacking, trying to ping Bill Kearney's article (see below), but find that there's an error in his RDF in the trackback data in his page. All because he started off the item with some angle brackets.

1206 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 1:58:42 PM  . .
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Perhaps this may help me understand the power relationships in UK Governmental quangos.

Bill Kearney: "Here I'm making several statements. I'm saying that the 'wkearney99' node is a member of this group. I'm then going on to say that the wkearney99 node is known to the group via an SHA1 hash of it's e-mail address and that it has a FOAF file of it's own at the seeAlso URL. It's also saying the group has it's own URL. This helps if something else using the group wants to confirm things about the group"

Dan Brickley: "...We could come up with properties like 'chair' that relate groups to people"

I'm trying to understand the relationships and positions of all the people involved in the West Midlands (UK) Regional Innovation Strategy. There's two A4 pages in the back of the report full of names and contact details. They should mean something to me, but don't, and as I trawl through more brochures like this, I'm going to see both repeated and new names, new organisatons, new titles for the same people. Wouldn't it be lovely for me to be able to study the relationships, as if in a organisational chart, or family tree, one that uses my icons, colours etc., Which mixes in this group of quango boffins with this board of civil servants and so on. Then I could see who were likely to be the people I need to approach, possibly.

For sure, these people aren't going to be interested in doing this for themselves, not any time soon, at least. I suppose if I had the time I could make the FOAF files myself. But, alas the app that would make the visual sense for me is not yet written. I can see the day when these quangos HAVE to produce their FOAF files, so that we, the ordinary geezers, can see who the hell is writing this stuff. Long time off though.

1205 Also posted to: bis , cyberSaps . At: 12:35:00 PM  . .
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"...Will provide support for... new projects aimed at promoting innovation and developing sectors within 10 market facing clusters. These will include projects identified by the Regional Innovation Steering Group, Business Growth Task Groups and others involved with the implementation of actions identified within the Regional Agenda for Action."

Promoting innovation? Blogs promote innovation, don't they? Market facing clusters? Which are those? Can't find much info about these (shadowy) steering/task groups.

These websites are so light on real help and heavy with the acronyms, and jargon.

1204 Also posted to: bis , cyberSaps . At: 2:52:19 PM  . .
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Bloody useless I'm trying to discover the point of some of these new UK Government quangos. This one seems interesting but I'm not clear on what the hell it's for. Hardly any information within the site, out of date events pages, with wrong dates, anyway. Crap, 'quango' speak, that means everything and nothing. I believe they are a way to get money out of European and UK coffers, but where and what the money does after that is not clear, far from it. Walk with me through the site as I try and figure it's purpose: "...a two year initiative offering regional individuals and organisations a unique opportunity to experiment with the development and delivery of public support promoting economic development. " What's public support?

"...the programme has been designed by an extensive local partnership to help identify untapped regional knowledge, encourage innovative new ICT use and embed leading edge innovation practices in the public, private and 3rd sectors." What sort of regional knowledge? Peas and ham? Heavy metal bashing? What's a 3rd Sector? Google digging: apparently, it means the voluntary sector. "It will provide funding - on a competitive basis - to support innovative, different and imaginative projects. Projects will need to deliver significant advances in innovation or knowledge, have the potential to be influential in regional economic development or provide important lessons in partnership development." "Different" is a weasel word. But, this does seem to be the right project aims for a 'million Midlanders blogging.' Blogging with a more studious approach, rather than the teenagers angst squealing about boyfriends, can be deeply knowledgeable, and certainly a learning environment for all concerned.

1203 Also posted to: bis , cybersaps . At: 12:19:34 PM  . .
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"Amazon.com provides a style sheet for producing RSS, but there's no reason why you cannot provide your own. The Web Services Developer's Kit explains how to do this. One reason to provide your own style sheet is to embed your Amazon Associate's identifier in the permalinks."

Pretty clever. More micro payments for your own content (in blogs.)

1201 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 9:31:12 PM  . .
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"Jason Brome's RSS feed feed button on your web page. Just roll your mouse over the example above, and you'll be instantly greeted by one-click subscription links to the most popular aggregators."

Think I'll have a go with this tomorrow, looks neat. I'm surprised by the large number of RSS readers. NetnewsWire isn't there though, and to my mind it's the premier app, though only OS X,

1200 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 8:47:50 PM  . .
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I've found an odd error on trying to ping an MT blog: error 1, Need a Source URL (url). But, stupid me! I go to their trackback url in the browser, and I get the same response! How can we look in the html for "<rdf:RDF" if that's all they're sending back. I deem her trackbacking bust. Bust I tell you! Well, maybe not, still looking.

1199 Also posted to: cybersaps . At: 2:57:59 AM  . .
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It's my feed, I'll show you it, how I like. You don't like that? Go away.

And so you should, or look or ask for another type of feed.

I want to dress up some items, and put all sorts of HTML in there, it renders fine, as I test my own dog food in the Radio Aggregator, in NN7. So I release it. Not many read my RSS 2.0 file though, but I do.

"Should people style their RSS feeds? Should news aggregators give users the option to strip styles from posts when they're displayed? What is too much style? If there's an image with a post, it's nice to let that wrap right or left as the author intended, but should you draw the line at font changes?"

To draw the line is to unsubscribe. Do it if it disturbs you IMO.

1198 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 2:02:47 AM  . .
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"The first section will describe the RDF model, which is its fundamental syntax. The second section will present the semantic aspects of RDF, the concepts and the corresponding vocabulary."

Where am I digging all this RDF stuff up from? Resource Description Framework: Applications and Projects.

Anyway, back to the gripping print out...

1197 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 1:12:31 AM  . .
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"The MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative is designed to create a portable and flexible means of storing and exchanging metadata related to digital audio and video tracks. The MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative is a content description model for audio and video tracks on the Internet."

Everybody's shaking it, all about, yeah, yeah. RDF.

I like the extensions: "such as contributors, roles, lyrics, release dates, remix/cover information, etc."

1196 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 12:57:59 AM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative 2.1

"RSS 0.94/2.0 to RDF converter"

Burningbird's description of this: "Mozilla's mbox-to-RDF API proves that you can reap the benefits of RDF (using those 20-odd tools of yours) without recasting the format itself as RDF. Ditto Sjoerd's RSS2-to-RDF XSLT ( http://w3future.com/weblog/2002/09/09.html#a129 ). Those who want RDF can have it, but they should pay the RDF tax (by creating, maintaining, and executing the transformations from the simpler syntaxes that the rest of us want to use, into the RDF that their tools can understand)."

I forget about the translators. Just been reading the SSR background. A simple addition to RSS2.0 to make all sorts of wild and weird data formations, patterns and display. I love ODB scripting at the best of times, but this stuff just takes the biscuit.

1195 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 12:46:00 AM  . .
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"The major difference between this syntax and RDF 1.0 M&S is that RDF edges correspond to elements, and RDF nodes are implicit. It is basically as the M&S syntax with parseType=resource is a default."

There's some heavy pattern making in here. [Out of the Semantic Web's Tool Box.]

1194 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 12:09:00 AM  . .
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Describing and retrieving photos using RDF and HTTP I do like the idea of being able to pull thumbnails up like this, that would be so cool. Been talking in Radio's list re a photo tool for Radio with gheil. And my major concern was the descriptions or as they've described so minimally here: content schema. Nevertheless, I get the drift. I think that abouts wraps up the final jigsaw, pun intended. I don't think there's a need to embed it in the actual pic is there? I've got my contextual information about my kids' pictures, which is the only thing I care about categorising. Though trivial to write it in, I don't like the idea of having it in two places, the blog item, and the pic... Hmm, has to be in there too <slaps head> The blog item sits in the description, Dublin Core, and all that old chap.

. Here's a window in BBedit, with the nice colours, and the original

gheil also said: "PhotoMechanic http://www.camerabits.com/ is a good tool in the $ bracket. It manages database stuff (and hands editing over to PS), but has some annoying miscues in its DB i have not worked around yet: can't get the date to flow through, on either xml output or text output :-( " Photomecanic looks pretty damn good actually. $150 OS X, Classic, and Win. Writes some stuff in to the correct parts of a JPEG, but seems to be based on a competing standard at least something else, more about news: "Digital Newsphoto Parameter Record (DNPR) version 4 -- This is the lower level file format for encapsulating digital news photographic data. It allows for editorial and technical information to be carried in the same file." Well, I suppose, my kids are news to me, and the family that read that category. Interesting to know this stuff. Maybe it's slipped me by. FOAF I got well into a tool to build FOAF files in Radio, the other day, love to finish that off. Here's my very first. I'm Johnny no friends at the bar, eek!

1193 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 10:13:42 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: RDF in thumbnails e.g. Verdon, Moustiers, France

Family's back tomorrow, gotta clean and get this pig shit dump looking like I haven't lived here on my own for two weeks. Air fresheners out, laundry put away, washed, beds changed, the whole kitchen floor gig! I find out this, has been knocking about in our bedroom for well, since we moved in. Finally, I put it up. I think it'll mean something in years to come, so I mention it here. She was the first fully naked babe I'd ever seen. I'd just turned 18, and found myself in Cardiff Art College, doing a foundation in art. Our group of 90 wonderfully pretentious, naive teenagers were first into the fabled, life drawing classes. Delicious.

1192 Also posted to: personal . At: 6:29:20 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Clean and tidy art school nudes

34 days 21 hours 26 minutes . I gave up smoking. Still going strong, at times, I almost forget about it.

<For split seconds 4 times an hour, I could murder a fag. I'd need to build another macro to multiply the above by (4 x 24 hrs) to find out how many cravings make a cold turkey. I've been lucky that those split seconds have not turned into the dancing cigarette hallucination. Not too many of those, in this trip to cleaner life.>

So have I missed them? Nah! <Deceitful sideways look.>

1191 Also posted to: personal . At: 5:35:50 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Quick post: non fag up date!

I notice that some shortcuts aren't being added from weblogData.shortcuts.personal to user.html.glossary when they're brand new. Still have to find that code that marries up these shortcut tables, think it's at start up... Anyway, I've added another call to processMacros, this time with the shortcuts in weblogData.shortcuts.personal directly ref'd. If you're using the back log RSS tool and rely on shortcuts in your feeds, this fix will be important. Update your tool.

1190 Also posted to: cybersaps . At: 1:14:42 PM  . .
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Cat Schwartz is one of the cute girls on TechTV. She posted some pictures of herself on her blog. Due to an obscure bug in Photoshop, she also inadvertently posted pictures of herself nude. [Via mFilter] Family's back tomorrow from their hols... Been alone too long...

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"Here's a link to one of Steve Hooker's posts."

Last test before I go to bed!

Screen of the XML returned to my message table.

"Here's a link to one of Steve Hooker's posts." The good Dr. David Davies! Catch dis ping, yu all. So this is trackback is pretty cool. I don't have to copy a url - paste it in anywhere, all I need is the permalink, and it'll auto discovery... That's very nice! I'll have to be aware, though that the first few lines that are visible in the other site's trackback page, cannot be changed!

Here's a test post for the man. ";->" Weeeeeee!

Testing out Jake's ping in Radio's Trackback. I still don't know what all this means you, know ";->"

I'll go look for some reading and bring back the links here... BRB
How TrackBack Works
A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack
Trackback in the UserLand environment

1183 Also posted to: cybersaps . At: 10:14:07 PM  . .
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"While the newspapers I read are telling me nothing new in the dirty dossier saga (see below), David Stevens has revisited the blog correspondent Andrew Gilligan kept during the Iraq war.

Stevens derives 10 points about Gilligan, the most important of which are his sourcing is "a bit dodgy" and "Gilligan never apologises."

The British Politics weblog has provided a truly valuable service by posting a pithy, comprehensible roundup of the dirty dossier saga. I agree as well with the anonymous author's analysis, which he scrupulously posts separately."

Wonder if Lance's got trackback switched on in his Manila site?

"The subpoenas are flying, and we're naming names. Are you on the list?"

Pretty strange to see a list of people. Kinda like they died in battle against the evil RIAA.

1181 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 11:21:32 AM  . .
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Do I know what track back is? Nope! But determined to use it in my site. I'll have to transfer my comments and trackback to my own Manila machine... Should do that by mid next week... Still much to do.

1180 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 11:10:59 AM  . .
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"It is just too easy to make fun of Bush and Blair these days. This is the one of the funniest flash animations I have seen since this Osama classic. Simplier but just as good is this Bush2004 cartoon."

1178 Also posted to: warBlog . At: 6:50:43 PM  . .
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"Robb's Law: NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don't control."

Tee Hee.

1177 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 6:35:59 PM  . .
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"...The more rapidly the black hole was growing, the faster the surrounding galaxy itself was growing by forming new stars.
Like the chicken and the egg, neither black hole nor galaxy can be said to come first -- each is necessary for the other."

1175 Also posted to: Space . At: 2:36:39 PM  . .
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"Beginner's guide to trackback. Old news to most here, but with even Radio Userland now implementing the technology, trackback has the potential to be another kind of spam, with gratuitous self-links popping up all over the place. When everyone can blog, will the Blogosphere be the next victim of Usenet's neverending September? Whether providing "community support" or "publishing tool", how long before popular bloggers are forced to implement Bayesian trackback filters?"

I remembered the never ending September: they were called Assholes On Line.

I haven't really been into Trackback, what I've seen hasn't been that useful. I don't switch on comments on my site because I don't want any comments from the great unwashed cluttering up my site. Though I'm looking forward to TrackBack in Radio, as a way of me, continuing a discussion, I guess I'll just have to suck it and see. I'll have power to delete those that contaminate the purity of my site, but that'll piss people off. Hmmm. Oh! The Angst!

 Source: MetaFilter; 22/07/03; 9:46:35 am.
1174 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 10:28:24 AM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: mF: Trackback to Guide Beginners

"Search by source, source location, headline, URL, or date."

 Source: Google Weblog; 21/07/03; 10:54:03 pm.
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"News about Manila, Frontier and Radio UserLand"

Awww! That's nice, I'm mentioned in dispatches. Damn nice tool though, well, the Feedster service is really the point.

Not only that but Dave Winer also points to the "I'm a cool tool!" Such a nice chap, and I've always said so. ";->"

Doh, and I missed Dr David Davies' link on Saturday, never mind here it is.

1171 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 1:23:03 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: UserLand Product News and my new tool

"Growing numbers of married people are turning to chat rooms for sexual thrills, say US researchers."

No problems here. "Be careful out there," people :-)~~

 Source: BBC News | Technology | World Edition; 21/07/03; 10:45:16 am.
1170 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 12:59:03 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Cyber sex lures love cheats

And a quick test of Trackback for Radio. Here's a site I should link to.

1169 Also posted to: cybersaps . At: 12:05:52 PM  . .
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Just testing a post from a mobile phone... Nothing to worry about, move along now, nothing to see here.

1168 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 10:08:50 AM  . .
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I think I'm very happy with Blog Patrol. I've moved off Radio's web bug because it was slowing down page loads. Blog Patrol's got a lot more stats too. As well as top 20 referers, last 10 referers (prefer last 24 hours), top search words, last 10 searches; OS, screens... Not bad.

Time to roll it out across all my pages. A whole site render, well there's a few new things in the templates, like a Feedster search, which is very useful for me to find past posts. All due to my new tool, Back Log RSS.

And, I've finally moved all my blog reads from the tabs of NN7 into Radio's aggregator. Lets see how good it is.

1167 Also posted to: cybersaps . At: 11:01:33 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Radio's web bug V Blog Patrol

"The investigation has resulted in the most comprehensive study of the distribution of dark matter in a galaxy cluster so far." "The map reveals that the dark matter drops sharply with distance from the cluster centre, which is what astronomers expected." And those stars are galaxies! All a matter of scale. Makes you feel quite insignificant, eh?

"The nightmare is not that New Labour's targets for putting government online will not be achieved, but that hitting the targets might make very little difference on the 'modernisation' front. Already, for example, over 50 per cent of services are online, but only ten per cent of the population have ever used them. The Inland Revenue has built a magnificent system for online filing of tax returns, but only 70,000 people (out of a possible 8 million) use it.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that those people who have most need to interact with the state (because of being poor, elderly or ill) are precisely the groups who feel most uneasy about using unfamiliar, online, channels. The battle to put government online has been won. But the battle to put citizens online has only just begun."

The digital divide, as it's called. This is the biggest obstacle, and to my mind, blogs are the answer. They're addictive for those who fall for them, involve life long learning, are a great communication platform for those who are ill, the elderly could blog to the past, building up a life of memories...

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Other title(s) for this story: Is UK eGovernment full of holes?

"There's a real surge of women entering the sex industry and of sisters doing it for themselves."

"Everybody uses sex to sell their product, yet for style- and fashion-conscious women, there was no sex brand. We had this idea that there was a gap in the market."

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Other title(s) for this story: A woman's touch

"We're going to get a new TV, with wide screen and surround sound and castors so we ca