Category: Internet

GDATA Provider

April 2, 2007 - Computers , Internet , Technology , Windows - by admin - 2 Comments

I’ve been hunting for a decent calendaring protocol system for a while now, and been investigating ITIP, IMIP, iCal, xmlrpc, caldav, and finally WCAP. Having initially settled on WCAP, as a result of having a fairly decent plugin available for Lightning, I set about trying to find a decent Calendar […]

The Best and Worst of 1994 and Predictions for ’95

March 9, 2007 - Internet , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

Worst: There’s not much that’s bad on the Net, but because cyberspace does imitate life, we shouldn’t be surprised that in 1994 some less-than-desirable material showed its insolent face. Pick any tragic event and you can probably recall seeing a newsgroup that taunted its seriousness. There was alt.tonya-harding. whack.whack.whack. Then […]

Star Trek Periodic Table

February 11, 2007 - Internet , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

My Sunday evening trawl of the information supahhighway has turned up this little gem in the spoil. If you ever thought that chemistry was boring, then this might bring a little smile to your face. Update – My mistake, the site doesn’t allow direct referrals. Instead, head over to the […]

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

February 8, 2007 - Computers , Internet , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

Interesting video on what the Internet has now become. More than just a collection of static pages that it used to be. I wonder what the future will hold, will the semantic web go anywhere? Will machines be able to extract the information from this ‘Web 2.0’ as easily as […]

Flickr search

January 27, 2007 - Computers , Internet , Web - by admin - No Comments

Just ambling around the internet this morning, from Scud missiles to Jonathan Aitken. I found this gem, a nice Flash interface to Flickr.