Year 2003

Reading time: < 1 min Blogged out. (and got a sore leg having been woken up with cramp in my right calf muscle at 5:30 a.m.) Scroll down for something of more interest, or not I guess…

Reading time: < 1 min Information Pollution (Alertbox): Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The more you say, the more people tune out your message. Written by some bloke called Jakob Nielsen, this article makes some very valid points, although they aren’t exactly original. Let’s hop in the DeLorean, fire…

Reading time: < 1 min Can you believe that there are some Scottish Bloggers out there that haven’t joined the webring? Joshua Called Me is one, and the author lives all of 10 miles from me, ridiculous! (the fact that he lives so close, not his website. His website is very nice actually…) This post was brought to you by…

Reading time: < 1 min Yes, the comments are working. I thought switching to Haloscan was a good thing. Grrrrrrr.

Reading time: < 1 min Typically (and this is not a rule) I don’t link to current news topics. Not sure why, I guess I’m figuring that smarter people than I are covering them and I don’t have much to add. These days I rarely buy a paper (usually on a Sunday though) and keep up with the news online.…

Reading time: < 1 min Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) was quite good. More action in it than I thought, humourous to a point and a decent all round summer movie. Still can’t make up my mind about Johnny Depp’s accent. Not helped by the fact that in the opening minutes I was sure…