by Rob Cottingham | May 10, 2005 | Technology
Want a practical example of how yak-shaving works? I want to export my bookmarks file to del.icio.us. Turns out del.icio.us doesn’t have an import function. Alex points me to a Perl script, del.icio.us import, that will do the job. I download the file, save it... by Rob Cottingham | May 9, 2005 | Communicating, Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Politics
Hot on the heels of our discussions over what great political candidates stand-up comics would make (triggered by a post by John Rogers)… …Mike Nichols suggests the story-telling skills of film and theatre are desperately needed in politics, too: In... by Rob Cottingham | May 9, 2005 | Everything Else
I think I must have been nine years old when my parents gave me my first bird book: How to Know the Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson. I was hooked, and I got as many bird books from the library as I could. One of those early tomes — maybe the Peterson book, maybe... by Rob Cottingham | May 9, 2005 | Technology
Arieanna asks, what should we be calling this thing I’m doing right now? I’ve noticed myself using the word “content” far too often in my “posts” and it’s suddenly occurred to me that this is not such a good thing. I... by Rob Cottingham | May 6, 2005 | Politics
There are so many reasons to be sorry that Ed Broadbent won’t be around for the next Parliament. One of the finest, most compassionate minds is leaving politics — and for the saddest of reasons. One last parliamentary contribution from Ed came yesterday: a...
