http://www.webitz.net/ Webitz en Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:34:00 GMT Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:34:00 GMT info@webitz.net info@webitz.net http://www.webitz.net/writing-and-books-and-the-future/ I've just received a little note from Orble to tell me that this blog has been inactive for 55 days. 55! It seems extraordinary, but lately things have been very... http://www.webitz.net/writing-and-books-and-the-future/#comments http://www.webitz.net/writing-and-books-and-the-future/ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:34:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/behance-network/ While reading a book review the other day for Making Ideas Happen I checked out the author and discovered the behance network site.. Let me quote the paragraph from the... http://www.webitz.net/behance-network/#comments http://www.webitz.net/behance-network/ Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:02:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/from-geocities-to-reocities/ Some time ago I wrote about losing all my files when geocities.com was killed off under Yahoo's mighty hand. At that time it seemed as though the stories, articles, poems... http://www.webitz.net/from-geocities-to-reocities/#comments http://www.webitz.net/from-geocities-to-reocities/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:15:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/surreal/ The only reason I looked up something called Irvingia Gabonensis is that I'm a naturally curious person who doesn't like to have such words pass him by without at least... http://www.webitz.net/surreal/#comments http://www.webitz.net/surreal/ Wed, 26 May 2010 09:09:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/facebook-credits/ I use Facebook a fair amount, though possibly not as much as I did when I first got involved in it. (I read somewhere today that in general guys tended... http://www.webitz.net/facebook-credits/#comments http://www.webitz.net/facebook-credits/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:03:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/zotero/ Yesterday at work I spent a good deal of time investigating the bibliographic reference program, Zotero. It comes as an add-on to the Firefox browser, and only functions within Firefox... http://www.webitz.net/zotero/#comments http://www.webitz.net/zotero/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/extraordinary-news/ Anyone who read my last post about losing stuff when geocities was demolished by Yahoo, may be pleasantly surprised by this extraordinary coincidence: I'd gone to find an example of... http://www.webitz.net/extraordinary-news/#comments http://www.webitz.net/extraordinary-news/ Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:53:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/but-weight-theres-more/ Over the Easter weekend I spent a bit of time putting my previous computer back together again to see if I had copies of some stories that got deleted from... http://www.webitz.net/but-weight-theres-more/#comments http://www.webitz.net/but-weight-theres-more/ Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:34:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/driven-out/ Some time back I wrote a couple of posts on the problems I was having with Dell and the computer I'd ordered from them. Ultimately everything got resolved - even... http://www.webitz.net/driven-out/#comments http://www.webitz.net/driven-out/ Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:42:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/sinking-stones/ This post has nothing to do with technology, except in the widest sense - that of making a stone sink. When I heard the phrase, 'stone sink' I thought... http://www.webitz.net/sinking-stones/#comments http://www.webitz.net/sinking-stones/ Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:54:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/unsatisfied/ Back in December I wrote about several online companies that would back up your data for you on a continuous basis. Most of them didn't come off too well in... http://www.webitz.net/unsatisfied/#comments http://www.webitz.net/unsatisfied/ Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:15:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/charlie-the-first/ I've been away for almost a week, so blogging has had to take a back seat. However, things are returning to normal, and I'm gradually getting back into the swing... http://www.webitz.net/charlie-the-first/#comments http://www.webitz.net/charlie-the-first/ Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:40:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/real/ New Zealand has banned smoking pretty much everywhere except outside on the street these days - that includes your own home, and inside cars. So it's rather amusing to read... http://www.webitz.net/real/#comments http://www.webitz.net/real/ Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:34:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/legoless/ I've just been watching, James May, off Top Gear building a Lego house - full size and walkable around in. Quite amazing. It's part of a series in which he's... http://www.webitz.net/legoless/#comments http://www.webitz.net/legoless/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:55:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/legal-tweeter/ A few posts ago I wrote about the idea of copyrighting tweets. The thought at that time was that tweets weren't copyrightable by dint of their being basically short phrases... http://www.webitz.net/legal-tweeter/#comments http://www.webitz.net/legal-tweeter/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:55:00 GMT