I’ve tried to clear up the blogroll in the right column of the blog – in the main because most of the people in the ‘Blogroll – Friends’ list have not posted anything but a couple of entries for months
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Category: Technology
Social networks profilerate – where do I start?
Facebook, Linked In, Xing, Ecademy… I’m starting to get swamped by different social networking systems. What, if any, is the point of adding people as friends / contacts in more than one of these systems? Plus for Linked In, Xing
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MPs, MEPs, candidates… A quick plug
Another day, another political website – today the website for David Hanson MP went live. Of particular note is the fact that this site is the first I’ve launched on a Green Web Host server powered by green electricity –
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My known unknowns, so no US politics on this blog
Without wanting to sound too much like Donald Rumsfeld, there are some things I know that I know nothing about, and I put US politics in that bracket. This blog has categories for European and UK politics for a reason.
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AirPort Express is cool, but Time Machine more questionable
NOTE: since this blog post has been written Apple has updated Time Machine and its Airport Extreme Firmware. Please see this post for details of how to create the ultimate home network. Computer in one room, sound system in the
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Government blogs: the person behind the political face
Just a few lines, but they say a lot about the person: By Friday I had to get up to prepare for a dinner at home with Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden as one of the guests
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barsinbrussels.eu – my new life as an internet entrepreneur(!)
What do you do when you end up in a new city and don’t have the information available to find decent bars and restaurants? Well, you do something about it! Hence the idea to register the domain name barsinbrussels.eu and
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UK, the Euro, and web hosting price transparency
It’s a matter of two things I care about: web technology, and European Politics – particularly the Euro and what it means for price transparency. I was looking at the price of 1&1 Virtual Servers for a client I’m working
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Miliblog is back, but we need more than this
I’m glad to see that the Miliblog is now back online, only this time as a group blog together with Minister for Europe Jim Murphy, and 4 FCO civil servants too. I hope he manages to surpass his posts about
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Adding Google Maps to my repertoire
Politicians go out visiting people and opening things, so why not illustrate that on a map? Harriet Harman had a visits map on her site that I made using the excellent LumoNet Google Maps plugin for Typo3, but what about
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Geni.com – cool technology
It was suggested to me by a friend in Berlin that I should join a site called verwandt.de to put together an online family tree. Not much good as that’s all for people in Germany. But the English language equivalent
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Vodafone Big Brother is tracking me
I’ve been receiving sinister automated messages on my voicemail for the last few days requesting that I call Westcot Credit Services. I first checked with Vodafone, my network provider, to find out what’s up. I was assured I had no
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