Microsooooooooooft takes on Google By Nic Price on 1 February 2005 — 1 min read Today Microsoft launches MSN Search which it hopes will give Larry and Sergei a run for their money. Looks like the folks behind it have taken a leaf out of the minimalist design book, and the results are delivered in a very familiar style to Google’s. However good it is, personally it would take an... More
I wonder what effect this will have on the way we buy houses By Nic Price on 31 January 2005 — 1 min read The UK Land Registry have made all Land Register and Title Plan information since 2001 available on the internet. For £2 you can find out how much your neighbour paid for their gaff. You can’t search by someone’s name, but if you know their house number and street name you can find out the price... More
Ivan Noble – “not defeated” By Nic Price on 29 January 2005 — 1 min read Ivan Noble has posted his final “tumour diary” entry. Ivan is a technology journalist at the BBC. He was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in 2002 and has kept an online diary of his life since. He has become too ill to write. His final plea: I will end with a plea. I still... More
Minor diversion By Nic Price on 27 January 2005 — 1 min read We were talking earlier about a radio programme I wish I’d heard yesterday. Apparently someone has been researching in to whether our association of minor keys in music with melancholy or sadness is innate or caused by conditioning. Their conclusion is that it’s something we’re born with. I’d never stopped to think about it before,... More
Localism By Nic Price on 25 January 2005 — 1 min read I’m interested in learning more about localism. I want to find out what it means, and how its meaning varies from context to context. In economics, politics, food and agriculture, broadcasting and religion both here in the UK and elsewhere in the world. This is the current Wikipedia definition of localism: Localism usually describes social... More
One or two things that interest me By Nic Price on 23 January 2005 — 1 min read In no particular order… London Learning to cook Cycling Design (of anything and everything) Windsurfing The history of communication How things work Running The development of language More
Setting up a WordPress blog on PlusNet By Nic Price on 22 January 2005 — 2 mins read I’ve been getting around to setting up a blog for ages… One of the things that’s put me off is making a decision on what software to go with, what account type to buy etc. etc. I was pointed towards WordPress by another PlusNet user in the discussion forum and so I thought I’d have... More