Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
One should always have something sensational to read on the net...
[Original Link] Aaron Swartz came up with a way of allowing Blogger sites to produce an RSS feed. Julian Bond has made a version of the service available on his site.
The collaboration of all these helpful people means that is much easier for me to read my friend Laura's weblog. What a wonderful world!
[Original Link] "Months go by and I don't receive any telemarketing calls, but I just got off the phone with the nice people at Precision Telemarketing, who got my name and unlisted phone number from Time Warner Cable (against my explicit directions upon signup, and their explicit promises) in order to try to sell me a subscription for TV Guide. I used the JunkBusters anti-telemarketing script to tell them to put me on their "do not call" list. In accordance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Precision Telemarketing will not be calling me again on behalf of TV Guide or any other company for the next 10 years."
[Original Link] Excellent! This is a basic version of NetStumbler for Mac OS X. (This is a bit of software which allows you to see some techie bits of information about 802.11 networks active in your vicinity.)
[Original Link] I was born in Kenya. I'm proud of it.
[Original Link] Wired News on the battle of the DVRs.
[Original Link] I'm a bit late in linking to Ben Hammersley's article about weblogs. It's a couple of weeks old, but still good despite being so outdated!
[Original Link] In another interesting move, Apple have made the eMac available to everybody. This is an updated version of the old iMac, and is the cheapest Mac with a G4 processor.
I was talking on Saturday about WebDAV and how Mac OS X could mount WebDAV shares as a native filesystem, albeit rather slowly.
Well, you can ignore that qualifier now; Apple have just released the 10.1.5 update to OS X and the most dramatic improvement is in the speed of WebDAV. Apple's free online personal disk space, which they call iDisk, now runs at a usable speed. Lots of other small but sweet improvements, too.
[Original Link] Two-thirds of UK homes now have the option of ADSL, according to this Register article. BT should drop the price of ISDN calls to compensate those who aren't, and won't be, in range of an ADSL-equipped exchange.