I am trying out some alternatives to my usual way of blogging (namely, online).  This is a vanilla email to my blog.

Bloglines has announced that you can track your parcels using a specialised subscription set up for the purpose: We are pleased to announce our newest feature, package tracking. Now, you can have Bloglines track the status of your UPS, FedEx, and USPS packages. From your My FeedsAdd link in the left pane. Then, click the…

I just found out there is a cheerleader blog.

I found this item on Boing Boing and I think it is brilliant (like many other things to come out of MIT).  This smart clock, called Clocky, was developed by Gauri Nanda, a Research Associate in the MIT Media Lab: Clocky is, quite simply, for people who have trouble waking up. When the alarm clock…

I have only just started playing around with del.icio.us with a view to adding a feed or blogroll of some kind to this blog.  Does this service enable a person to create a blogroll?  I have seen something resembling a blogroll on some sites.  I am just not too sure how it all works.  I…

I have mentioned Lisa LeDemure’s blog once or twice before.  Lately she has taken a different direction with her self-portraits with some pretty interesting results.  Some of her readers have taken her pictures and have added some great finishes to them, giving birth to a kind of collaborative exhibitionism.  As a writer she writes some…

I have been thinking about great ways to keep up to date with my my mail and news feeds and not have to sit in front of my desktop for half the day and I have decided (perhaps a little late) that Tablet PCs are the way to go.  I asked G for one for…

There is a guide to broadband products available in South Africa which was available on MyADSL.  This guide rates the various broadband offerings in South Africa using factors such as price, reliability and bandwidth.  The best product in South Africa, comparatively speaking, appears to be the Telkom DSL Home 384 at R648 (roughly $105) per…