The topic title had me curious, so let’s see what happens! Fresh from the talk on how to write good headlines (according to The Times Online), perhaps this would better have been entitled ‘Native to a Web of Britney Spears on Viagra’ - who can say.
David Thompson hails from Cambridge. A self professed geek, he […]

First talk of the day from a fresh-faced looking Martin of Communote, Germany, demonstrating his new microblogging service. Nervous - his first barcamp event (incidentally, my first one too) - his presentation is slick and certainly no impromptu grass-roots affair.
Martin’s primary points are very valid: Twitter is not the be all and end all of […]

I recently added a couple of pages to my site with some free software for you to download.
The first is a plugin for WordPress called Sandbox Relocator which makes working in a sandbox or staged environment easier. No more hacking the database each time you sync your test copy with the live version.
The second is […]

Two things[*] annoy me about MySpace:
1. You can’t search your inbox.
2. When someone deletes their account, it deletes every message they sent you, including ones you saved.
Well, I did something about it. I wrote a program to read my inbox and mail me all of the contents!
Click here for a screen shot.
[*] a lot more […]

(Skip straight to the bottom if you just want the plugin or patch and not the background).
I am an internet socialite, as most of you reading this probably know. Internet communication comes in many forms, from email to forums to Usenet. Some people live their life on the end of a telephone; I’m usually on […]

I got a bit bored of my web server switching itself off at 4am for no reason and the boss waking me up from half way across the world all irate about it. So I wrote this script so that the problem can fix itself.
Feel free to use it for whatever you want, although I […]