Flickr, my favourite online photo sharing site and yours, has been acquired by Yahoo!. It looks like it’ll remain separate from Yahoo! Photos, and the changes that will be happening will be minimal and user-beneficial (like more storage/bandwidth on free and pro accounts). Yahoo - once the pioneer - is now the great stinking corporate behemoth, buying up young, hip and trendy internet companies in its bid to keep up with The Great Google. Read more...

I’ve recently discovered a thing called GTD. It’s a philosophy based on a book by David Allen, which I haven’t read, but which talks about “Stress-Free Productivity”. Thanks to a weblog called 43 Folders, and an article at O’Reilly by Giles Turnbull I’ve discovered some Mac-friendly GTD stuff. Apparently it takes some time to set yourself up to use GTD methods, but once you do, it’s well worth it. So far I’ve just implemented a Hipster PDA - a stack of 3x5" index cards and a bull clip. Read more...

Saints were outclassed on live TV on Saturday afternoon. It was painful to watch. I guessed that we would either run Man. Utd. close or we would get slaughtered. In the end, we were lucky it wasn’t five- or six-nil. Most of our better players were either cup-tied, injured or suspended (David Prutton - you muppet!). Only Premiership survival to play for now, though it must be said that our passage to the sixth round wasn’t exactly tough (Northampton, Brentford), and we did have a big slice of luck (Portsmouth). Read more...

After hearing about how great last year’s South by South-west was, I quite fancied going. There’s a whole Brit contingent making the trip this year, which would have been fun to ride the coattails of. As you can infer from the title of this post, though, I’m not going. I don’t personally have the money, I didn’t ask work whether the training budget would stretch, and (to be honest, this is the main reason) I wouldn’t want to be out of the country for a week when Kathy’s six months pregnant. Read more...

Sorry - I haven’t posted since Friday, and that was only to tell you the blog had moved house.In short: Bill Gates, KBE.stm. Killing British Enterprise, presumably. Southampton earned a well-fought point against Arsenal, though David Prutton has been given a ten-match ban for pushing the ref. Eek! Saints also beat Brentford in the FA Cup 5th-round replay, setting up a quarter-final against Man. Utd. That’s about it, really. See you again soon!

The blog now lives at www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/ as I was fed up of performing redirects from the PlusNet homepages server to the CGI one. The RSS feed still lives at feeds. Read more...

Another quick rant. I’m working at home today, which means I’ve had to field two telemarketing calls already, and it’s only lunchtime. Both calls were from companies that I am already a customer of, but they both used a technique that I’d encountered in the past but only recently got wise to: the “Is That OK?” Rather than asking a question that’s unambiguous, like “would you like to take advantage of this offer? Read more...

Snow towards Roundhill Originally uploaded by t1mmyb.

Grrr. I thought we’d seen the last of these, but I had noticed the odd popup lately, in both Firefox and Safari. It seems that those dirty advertisers have found ways to get around the popup-blockers present in most modern browsers by default (and IE with XPSP2 or a third-party add-on).Veerle Pieters has a great quote from a web advertiser on her blog: By using a popup blocker, you are essentially stealing their work. Read more...