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Wordpress2 is coming out this week - over at fourth.org.uk

we use lots of plugins so the upgrade won't be a simple drop and upgrade - fourtunatly, the holidays are coming and I'll have time to make the upgrade carefully.

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Dickens World: A Dickensian-themed attraction for the whole family.

This place is very close to where I live - will be interesting to see what it's like when it finally opens. The attached cinema will open in October 2006. WooHoo!

Read more at www.dickensworld.co.uk/

Google Gmail Now Accessible via Mobile Phones

Google have turned the drip feed of new features on Gmail into a bit of a flood recently. Contact Groups; Vacation Responder and now a good mobile client - what's next I wonder?

Read more at blog.searchenginewatch....

Using CruiseControl.NET with Ant - Confluence

If you want to call ANT from crusisecontrol.net, this page is useful.

There's a bug on it though, when you modify ant.bat, you need to add 'exit /B %ERRORLEVEL' - if you leave out the /B, the build works but is reported as failing

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The BBC has some incredible content. Thanks to the way it's funded, you can get lots of excellent content that other providers simple don;t have.


For Example, They have an archive of interviews with differnt people from Ansel Adams to Steven Speilberg and because they've been going for so long, they have interviews dating back many years.


Check out the list of interviews available at the link.
BBC - BBC Four - Features A-Z

Oh Rats - when you rely on something, it really is a drag when it's down - when it comes back up i'm going to grab my opml file and seek oppourtunties elsewhere - but only as a backup.

When will google do bloglines for me - it's so unfair them making me visit other sites for good online RSS aggregation :)

I'm thinking of playing with the bloglines Web service through python. I want to be able to take feeds with me on my Treo650 but don't want them marked as read, unless I actually read them.

Well, actually, why I'm bnot subscribing to the Financial Times.

First off, it's a great news paper. The articles are well written, and some of the guest authors are great. I've toyed with the idea of subscribing for a while and they emailed me to see if I'd like to subscribe free for 1 month.

So, after the month, here's what I found. I made the effort to go and get the paper almost every day - apart from when I was in Nottinghamshire for a weeks holiday - seems the folks around those parts don't read the FT!

For the rest of the time, I usually read the side bar on the way back to the office and then never looked at the paper again. The Weekend edition's magazine was good but only kept my attention for a few minutes. When the French voted against the EU constitution, there was a good article about how long the euro would last which I read.

So, at the end of the free trial month - I won't be subscribing but might but the paper when something interesting happens or at the weekend.

Tiger, the latest version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system is out. There are lots af articles about it on the internet so I'm only going to cover a few of the things in there that make it stand out for me.

• Core Data - if your a programmer for the mac - this changes everything! Core data lets you design relational data models and it manages the complexities of maintaining those relationships for you in the object model. It's very cool. Check out the Cocoa Dev Central tutorial for an idea of what it can do for you.
• Quartz Composer this was a real suprise to me - Until I played around with it, I really couldn't see what all the fuss was about. The compositer lets create very complex graphical applications, screen savers or just stuff that looks cool, without having to be a graphics programming whiz. Check out http://www.quartzcomps.com/ for more details.
• Spotlight - It just lets you find stuff. It's very quick, works flawlessly and you'll hate it when you have to live without it (on windows).

There's lots of other stuff in there. Check it out if you have the chance. Apple probably won't release another major version of OSX for a couple of years, so grab your copy now.

Adam Bosworth's Weblog: Where have all the good databases gone
Adam article descibes how database companies started a few years ago to ignore customers needs and write stuff that they thought was needed. He doesn't say it, but vendors just began trying to match each others features with incompatible extensions.


This article lists three features that we do require but no one is delivering on. He suggests that Open Source Software could fill in the gap here.