I’ve noticed a trend in how I use the internet now, where I use different aspects of it in different contexts. In my browser there is a set of bookmarks in a folder called “Send to”, which allows me to direct resources to different places.

I’ve just gotten back from a great day at the Stackoverflow Dev Day, I didn’t take my usual copious notes, but I thought a flavour of proceedings would be good to get down. For those who don’t know me, I have to add the caveat that I’m not a …

My journey to d.construct was a long one, I hadn’t even checked which talks were when, so I was very thankful for the schedule built into your name tag! I took quite a few notes for general use, but please to refer to the originals where possible:…

Keynote: The urban

A few respected bloggers have come out against including comments on blogs. Partly due to their popularity, they have suffered from a long spew of noise, filth, and anonymous rubbish. So far I’ve been pretty happy with the quality of comments here, but I’d like to maintain that.

Upcoming.org is a site that allowed people to publish their events, and therefore you could see all the events by location and/or type of event. Yahoo bought the company, they have relaunched the site, and it’s pretty good (functionality wise at least, I’ve not checked the markup).

I noticed OpenID a while ago, as a possible way to do single-sign-on for internet applications. Recently I wondered why Google used CAPTCHA, and despite it being the most viewed article on this blog (thanks to Matthew Mullenweg), no one pointed out the obvious problem with my argument.

Whether you think the term “Web 2.0″ is a passing buzzword or a useful umbrella term for a range of concepts, I’ve been hearing some strange requests from clients. Over the course of a few conversations I’ve distilled down the main criteria I use for establishing whether we should use some fancy new Web 2.0 magic.

In what I hope is the only site-admin post I have to do for a while, please let me know if you have any trouble accessing the site, leaving comments, or receiving RSS feeds. I do realise the irony, but please do email me if you are having trouble…

Things on the web move so fast these days that there is a backlash against what people perceive as “Web 2.0″ sites before most of the internet population even know what they are. (Even taking the narrow view of AJAX and tagging).

So it’s good to see a use that …