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  How my PDA is mobilising my read/write lifestyle

  I got my first PDA for Christmas, a Palm Tungsten T2 - cost about $700 in New Zealand dollars. It's already changed my reading/writing habits for the better. For a...

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  Citizen Blogger

  I've been getting more and more interested in the concept of a "Citizen Blogger": a person who actively participates in politics via their weblog. For such a person, weblogging becomes...

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  Favicons – more web design trifles

  This is the last piece of self-promoting babble I'll post for a while - I promise - but I thought I'd mention that I've added a favicon to my weblog....

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  RSS button – look Ma, no graphics!

  I've been meaning to add the orange RSS button back to my menu for a while. However I've been reluctant to upset my finely-tuned but fragile CSS/Radio Userland code synchronisation,...

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  Portrait of a Geek as a young-ish man

  Note to self: don't bother with any more surveys, because I'm not popular enough. As Homer Simpson might say, Stupid A-List... :-) But seriously, I was a little disappointed more...

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  Last chance

  OK, so I'm not Kottke and my surveys don't attract hundreds of punters :-( But thank-you Rogers for linking to my survey. I'll keep the survey going till tonight NZ...

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  So come on then, what do I look like?

  So far I've gotten two very interesting responses to my informal survey: what do I look like? This is a fascinating experiment, because even from just two responses I can...

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  Informal Survey: what do I look like?

  I'm currently updating my 'About Me' page, so that it reflects my 2004 goals and themes that I'll be exploring this year. I've got the draft sitting on my brand...

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  Individualizing the Web

  Summary: I analyse a 1994 Personal Information Management program and compare its goals to what we want in in a similar tool in 2004. I discover the requirements are basically the...

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  XSLT, 2004 goals, and general blather

  Man it gets quiet in the blogosphere over xmas. I've had to resort to some real work to keep myself occupied. I've been diving into XSLT to try and develop...

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  I am Game Neverending

  Summary: I analyse Game Neverending, a multi-player social software web application, and compare it to a virtual world that I created in my recent novel.One of those silly but addictive questionaires is doing the rounds: What...

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  Linkblog added to sidebar

  I'm doing some incremental changes to the site. First up, I added my linkblog to the sidebar. I use my linkblog to save links, ideas and memes that interest me....

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  First read-through of my Nanowrimo novel

  I've just finished reading my Nanowrimo novel as a whole piece for the first time. I'm pretty pleased with the story, apart from one thing right at the end (which...

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  Do we really need Web Design and Taxonomy?

  Two recent memes from the blogosphere seem to me to be ripe for mixing:Meme 1) The current trend for tech blog re-designs to have a minimalist, lotsa-white-space look that places...

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  The New Puritan Manifesto

  As I was browsing my local bookstore, ostensibly looking for a Christmas present for my Grandma, I came across a book called all hail the new puritans. It was a...

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  Update on Weblog Ontologies

  Couple of bits of feedback from last night's post on weblog ontologies. Bill Seitz points out that his Wikilog does in fact have a hierarchical view, the user has to...

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  Weblog Ontologies, Part 1

  I've been jotting down re-design ideas in my trusty paper notebook. On the Web there is an unwritten maxim: learn (steal?) from the best. So I decided to review some...

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  Aesthetic Morality in the 21st Century

  Morality in art has always been a fascination of mine. And by art I mean literature, music, movies - the works. Some weblogs even. A favourite artist of mine is...

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  Motivations: comparisons between novel-writing and blogging

  I had written a long post describing my motivations for writing my novel, but on reflection I won't publish it because it belongs more to my personal journal than on a...

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  Reflections on writing a novel in 27 days – Part 1

  In November 2003 I embarked on a new adventure: writing a novel. I took part in Nanowrimo, an annual novel-writing challenge that takes place every November. Nanowrimo stands for 'National...