Author Archives: mjr

A Christmas Present From Spammers

2009-12-24 by mjr

Contained in the recent billionth-spam report from Project Honeypot is the revelation that “The volume of spam drops approximately 21% on Christmas Day and 32% on New Year’s Day.” (Thanks to Raphael for the pointer.) Happy Christmas to those of … Continue reading →

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Moved Home

2009-12-23 by mjr

My personal site’s copy of this blog and some of my other sites moved servers last week. A few differences in Apache configuration between 1.3 on the old server and 2.2 on the new server tripped me up and it … Continue reading →

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Similarities between the co-op and Google

2009-12-19 by mjr

This is a bit of a silly note for a Saturday while I’m currently working on translating the co-op’s web pages into Esperanto. The old site was translated, but the new site launched as English-only. I’d like to have other … Continue reading →

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Widgets, W3C and Wallies

2009-12-18 by mjr

Widgets are little web applications run on the client side. They’re not particularly new and there are a lot of them about, but there’s little consistency between them, so they’re a bit of a pain to use in practice still. … Continue reading →

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WordCamp UK, 17-18 July 2010 in Manchester

2009-12-17 by mjr

Advance notice of WordCamp UK 2010 on 17-18 July 2010 in Manchester. Ticket sales expected in early April 2010. I voted for the Portsmouth bid, so of course Manchester won(!) I’ve passed the event details to our co-op for consideration. … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 3 Introduces Reply-To List

2009-12-16 by mjr

I’ve kept a page of email clients that support mailing lists for a while and it’s been a bit disappointing that I couldn’t suggest Mozilla Thunderbird or its freer derivatives (IceDove?) as good clients. They work fine in most other … Continue reading →

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Do you think Directgov Delivers?

2009-12-15 by mjr

Directgov is the Government’s official website for the general public. As both a member of the public and a parish councillor, I use it fairly often to look things up. Sometimes it’s surprisingly good, but much of the time, it’s a frustrating page-hunt and leaves me going around … Continue reading →

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Funding Networking, Coops and SocEnt

2009-12-04 by mjr

As an aside to yesterday’s Another Network Begins note, I should mention that one of the challenges of running any inter-business project is paying for it. It surprises some people that many great cooperative projects are running on very small … Continue reading →

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On The Road, #online09 and #koha

2009-12-03 by mjr

It was great to meet the newest member of our co-op yesterday and discuss a new ethical business referral network, but I’ve barely spent any time back at home and I’m heading out again, partly to visit online09 and IMS, … Continue reading →

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As One Association Closes, Another Network Begins

2009-12-02 by mjr

The Association For Free Software (AFFS) seems to have been finally wound up last week. So long, AFFS was Richard Smedley’s view of it. I actually left four years ago (when I wrote State of the AFFS – site currently … Continue reading →

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