Apparently the Royal Mail is offering a service that lets you fill in tax returns online. Somewhat bizarre, but worth checking out, given that the IR’s one doesn’t work for me at present.
Archive for December, 2003
You can read Tom Peters’ Slides online. Nice idea, as you are unlikely to be able to understand the slides without going to a seminar and having the slides available might make you more likely to attend a seminar.
Alan Mather looks ahead to the next few years of e-gov.
Newham has pulled out of trials of OSS desktop software. It makes sense, given the scale of the work required, but isn’t great news for those of us who’d like to see some sort of trial go ahead.
Web Page Development: Best Practices from Apple. There’s some useful stuff there.
Police call for remote button to stop cars. The idea of the police being able to stop cars at will is a good one, in my utopian ideal of most people not offending, and therefore not worrying about this. But as a hacker, I know I could buy a piece of kit within weeks that would allow me to stop your car (illegally) whenever I wanted. That isn’t so good.
One Across has a useful enter clue and pattern interface to solve crossword puzzles. Nice.
Update: the site is now back after a few weeks downtime. Looks like they had server move problems.
Another update [April 2005] looks like it’s gone again.
John Robb takes a look at the winners and losers for 2004. It’s a good list (he agrees with me on personal hard drives or personal servers), although I don’t think the UN will disappear.
Tantek has a pile of good ideas for making your blog more semantic which include including what to do with anchors to show you how tricky it can be to get it right. If he’s right!
O’Reilly XForms Essentials on the web. Worth understanding these things for LAWs, among others.
High-flying camera club showcases some kite photographers. Nice hobby if you have the time.
Introducing PCLinuxOS 2K4 reviews a nice-looking Linux-on-a-CD distro. One for BitTorrent, I think.
Radio boost for rural broadband. Just you wait - those diamond-shaped aerials will be everywhere before long. Good news, and good choice from the government.
10 Rules for More Effective Advertising should help lessen Headshift’s worries about whether the use of the internet in presidential campaigns means anything.
Chris Kunicki critiques Office 2k3 XML. Lots of space for OpenOffice, etc here.
The Movies of the Year from NYT. Lots of unusual stuff in there. Looks good.
mobileRSS is a browser-based aggregator for PDA screens. Just the thing to double my data costs on Orange!
How to run a software company: make more mistakes.
Google search for books in its print program.
