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9/11 Five years on, the statistics

By John Garner on Wednesday, September 6, 2006

The BBC has compiled a very interesting set of statistical charts combined with key event dates, giving a better idea of their impact on the statistics. It is nicely presented and works well with the key dates, accompanied each time with an image and brief description. An interesting choice of statistics indicating which areas have […]

The Google advert will call you

By John Garner on Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Part of my family live near Leeds, while my close family live in France. I was looking to compare prices for flights from Paris to Leeds and a little green thing caught my eye next to the results on Google. My mum's flight from Leeds to France a few weeks ago was just after the […]

Captcha Brain Power

By John Garner on Tuesday, September 5, 2006

I just came across a very interesting Google Video from Google. Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon professor, discusses the Captcha concept used to stop automatic systems from filling in forms and how currently Spam companies are trying to get around it. Captcha is used to describe a system that allows a computer to automatically […]

Google SEO Lessons

By John Garner on Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Google, via it's evangelist Adam Lasnik is starting to provide SEO classes. As you can see here the seminars are cheap and open to all. It begs the question about Google asking people to create web sites for people and not for their robots. However, it is true that the best idea is to build […]

Superb time lapse photo shoot

By John Garner on Saturday, September 2, 2006

I just came across this photo set of the same view using a time lapse intervelometer device. I was lead to it from a remixed version over on flickr : by 'narphorium' (he explains how he did it in the comments with Photoshop) Do check the original and the remix, both are really good pieces […]

The UK Government's Wiki melt-down

By John Garner on Saturday, September 2, 2006

Yes pun intended, the minister from the UK government that decided to create an open environmental Wiki that 'all' could edit must have been reading all the web 2.0 hype about getting people involved without any authentication required. Well the result is pretty impressive in that the site was defaced and lead way to numerous […]

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