Wednesday, February 27, 2002


Our good friend Chris Gulker has been taking a trip down memory lane. Chris was a photographer at the LA Herald Examiner, where I also worked. He dug out this photo of editor Jim Bellows and Mary Ann Dolan in the Herex newsroom for Steve Latham, who is making a PBS documentary, The Last Editor, about Bellows. One of my great regrets is that I started at the Herex just after Bellows left, thus missing the chance to work for one of the legendary characters in American journalism.
11:35:41 PM    

Monday, February 25, 2002

Have a listen to the voicemail message at Enron.
2:51:05 PM    

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

Oh damn, I'm too late. I wanted to post a message at 2 minutes past 8, when the date, time and year would read 20:02 20 02 2002. And to think it hasn't happened since the year 1001 and will never happen again. Doggonit!
8:07:42 PM    

Thursday, February 14, 2002

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters and marriage proposals. Nice one, Cmdr Taco.
8:24:27 PM    

Wednesday, February 13, 2002

This is a test to see if you can post to Radio using web-based email. Personally, I don't think it will work.
5:02:47 PM    

Speaking of the New Statesman (see below), I have, perhaps against my better judgement, been persuaded to serve as moderator of the judging panel for the NS New Media Awards. At least that means I will get invited to the New Statesman's summer party and rub shoulders with lots of old lefties.
4:59:02 PM    

I've spent the past three days working at the New Statesman magazine. If you click on that hyperlink, my apologies. The NS website needs a serious rethink, and I know just the man for the job.
4:52:45 PM    

I'm feeling very proud of myself. Over the weekend I managed to set up a password system for an Apache web server using the Unix command line terminal. Here's proof:

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4:50:32 PM    


Sunday, February 10, 2002

This is a test post to ridey.net news via email.
12:17:07 PM    

Saturday, February 9, 2002

Our friend (and Internet service provider) Chris Gulker has redesigned his gulker.com website using Radio 8. He's also added a new site, A picture named logo1.jpg gulker.net. Bound to be full of interesting ideas.
11:42:31 AM    

Website of the Week Fun with Flash
1:15:19 AM    

Thursday, February 7, 2002

A mild winter has brought an early start to spring in southern England. Here are some Irises that are already in bloom in our garden, at least a month ahead of schedule.

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3:24:54 PM    


And here is what Charlie Cam is seeing today in rainy, windswept Surrey

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2:00:50 PM    


Bought an Orange Micro iBot firewire webcam yesterday, so Charlie Cam is back to being a 24/7 operation now.

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1:03:02 PM