Today Google announced Google Gears, and articles have sprung up like mushrooms explaining why this is a truly historic day. If this works as claimed then the articles may all turn out to be right.

This morning, Californian time, Jeff Hawkins unveiled the “secret third business” he has been dropping teasing hints about since the middle of 2005. It is the Foleo mobile companion, a product that sounds stupid when you first hear about it but might have a compelling underlying logic.

I just finished my first working WP plug-in, as a result of thinking through a bunch of problems while helping Sean, the Geek With Laptop, with a very minor issue concerning the Clean Archives plug-in, that I have discussed here. I am calling the plug-in Front Page News, because that describes its intended purpose.

A couple of weeks ago, in one of my periodic trawls through the lists of available plug-ins, I came across a mention of SRG Clean Archives which had recently been taken over by the Geek With Laptop. I looked at it and it seemed to answer some of the problems I was trying to think through.

Someone somewhere has created a button generator, to make png files that you can use as buttons. It contains nothing that you could not do yourself in Photoshop in ten minutes, but since it consists entirely of sliders and fields then (in some circumstances) it might prove easier.

I recently participated in the forty hour Semano Semano event organised at Arcada in Helsinki, but taking place on the island of Rosario in SL. This was the culmination of a one period course run as part of the multimedia degree, and the teaching took the form of an unusual blended learning mix.

This is a list of the countries that have won the world cup. The first cup was won in 1930 by Uruguay, who beat Argentina. Brazil have one it most.

From Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong, by Jerry Fodor

In May 2007 I changed the formatting for images to fit in with what I am calling version five of the site. More accurately, I finally standardised the formatting and made it fit the new, improved design logic. I also added a couple of styles that can be added to graphics, including a style for captions.