OK, I’m in the process of preparing a questionnaire aimed at users to establish the final round of functional and non-functional requirements for my Desktop Search project. I’ll obviously be linking to it on here when it’s live, but I thought I’d give out a last call for questions first.

So, if you wanted to know [...]

Nascentguruism has finally gone live.

I urge you to go look at Steve’s new design as, frankly, it’s a real labour of love and would be a shame not to. Attention to detail is order of the day, with the squeakiest clean mark-up (bar a few transitional hooks), some frankly acrobatic CSS for doing nested quotes [...]

ElfUrl is a service that generates short urls for long and unwieldy urls. Anything with a whopping great query string (Amazon search results, for example) can be converted into a short code that’s easier to recite and won’t break in email.

ElfUrl is preferable to the ubiquitous TinyUrl.com simply because it has a cleaner homepage, it [...]

Just a short post this one. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with some other like-minded geeks in York on Saturday.

Pictures are now up on Flickr, thus the task of recalling people’s names has begun.

I promised at the time that I’d forget names within minutes, as I tend to do, and that promise [...]

Right, as part of my as-yet unnamed final year project (broadly speaking, it’s desktop search), I need to do some research. Actually, if anything I need to find some books that tell me what I already know so I can put them in my bibliography to get around the fact that I’m a smart-arse and [...]