MySpace

August 9th, 2006

Hypocrisy?
I wrote a post a while back on how much I disliked MySpace, much for the reasons as outlined in the Slashdot news stories below. However an anonymous commenter replied with something interesting:
Social networking websites are a kludge. People are trying out because it’s new and prevalence of computer and internet makes it possible for […]

Yourspace

August 7th, 2006

The web is Yourspace: a commentary on how the web was created, and how open standards were instrumental in its success.
Common Communication: The Web By Design
The web was created by Tim Berners-Lee as a method to facilitate communication around CERN, though it became apparent it could become a lot more when coupled with two other […]

Gnome Dress

July 30th, 2006

A few months ago I posted some screenshots of my desktop. I didn’t think many people would care about them, so posted them as quite high quality (150-250KB) pngs.
Recently Google Images robot indexed my site and deemed the Gnome Dress png worthy of going onto the front page of a search for “wallpaper”. Using the […]