Since I started more-or-less daily blogging, I have taken more of an interest in other people’s musings. Today I find that everybody (well, Tom Coates and Ben Hammersley) is linking to this from Amazon (more accurately, this). Given that I would buy everything on Amazon if I could, I am very interested in anything they do. I am a devoted Amazonian (I just made that up, but it sounds good). Actually, I wouldn’t buy everything, but almost everything. (Public Service Announcement: other e-commerce sites are available). Of course, this also means that I can place a shameless link to my WishList. Shameless is OK, as nobody will ever buy anything from it. Something on there might rank on Daypop’s WishList Chart one day.

On this day…

2005: links for 2005-07-17
2005: In Case Of Emergency
2003: Rain Breaks Heatwave
2003: Gay Consumers Are Good

Why do I always seem to post the links the rest of the blogging world sees? Anyway, this caught my attention today. I use the internet for research purposes, but I was not fortunate enough to have access when I was studying. This article essentially implies that researching on the ‘Net is not as good as reading a good old-fashioned book. “The quality of information [on the Internet] is below what you find in print,” according to the story. Perhaps it is, but then most of the information still remains free on the web. I wonder if we’ll ever get an appropriate charging model that allows people to use the ‘Net for the research they need but pay in the same way as those who buy the books. Is it down to the libraries to pay to put the information online? On the upside, “Net thinkers are said to generate work quickly and make connections easily”. I know one thing for sure, Google is a lot easier than the old Encyclopaedia Index volume.

On this day…

2005: links for 2005-07-16
2005: Harry’s Here
2003: Paris Photographs

The new look Yahoo homepage (http://www.yahoo.com/) carries on Yahoo’s tradition of a clean interface but brings a fresher look. I have always liked that clean feel about most of Yahoo’s interface. I hope they bring it to the UK site soon and make similar changes to My Yahoo! It’s so sad that this makes me happy!

On this day…

2006: Bye Bye Juan Pablo
2006: And We’re Back
2005: Yummy
2004: My Data

I might be new to this blogging lark, but Whorechalking does amuse me.

On this day…

2005: The Mood Of London Changes
2005: Silverstone, Here I Come
2005: On A Lighter Note
2003: Well Thank Goodness

I have to admit to the occasional pint of London Pride beer. I have been very close to many pints. Just never this close [MetaFilter pointed me here].

On this day…

2005: A Few Moments Of Reflection
2005: 12:46
2005: Preliminary Vote
2005: What Have You Done Today?
2005: The G8 Summitt
2004: The Day F1 Came To London
2004: Formula One Comes To Regent Street

Well, at last. I think I have an idea about CSS. I have now realised that IE and Mozilla won’t quite look at things in the same way.

“Remember, IE5/Win gets the box model wrong by absorbing padding and margins without adjusting the overall width. 67% is approximately what 52% looks like after you add padding and margins.”

It didn’t quite take me 14 hours, but I am getting there ;-(

On this day…

2005: God Is Bored Of You
2005: Fleet Street editors Back the Bid
2005: Countdown is Progressing
2005: Powered By Rotting Fruit
2002: Did They Make It Up?
2002: It’s All Queens on 4th July!
2002: Amazon A-Go-Go