links for 2005-07-11 Big, Stark & Chunky: A List Apart Zoom layouts (tags: web accessibility css stylesheets internet design zoom layout) TrueFresco Referrer Feed Provides a feed of referrers to your site. Unfortunately they’re at capacity at the moment so not accepting new accounts. (tags: web blogging webtraffic referrers stats) BBC – Drama – To The Ends Of... More
Bloggers need not apply Blogger beware! Job seekers who are also bloggers may have a tough road ahead, if our committee’s experience is any indication. You may think your blog is a harmless outlet. You may use the faulty logic of the blogger, “Oh, no one will see it anyway.” Don’t count on it. Even if you take your... More
links for 2005-07-09 TagCloud – Home This is what we need for our intranet. Lets you point at one or more sources of tagged content and represents tags in a cloud where size indicates tag usage (tags: rss xml tagging tags folksonomy tagcloud webservices web tools tag services) More
links for 2005-07-08 BBC – Weather Centre – 5 Day Forecast in Celsius for Lewisham, United Kingdom Nearest weather observation station for East Dulwich (tags: SE22 weather forecast BBC 5dayforecast eastdulwich London) HandHeld History – more history on your mobile They do a blue plaque thing too (tags: mobile history handheld guidedtours stephenfry joannalumley premiumrate blueplaques) Flickr: The... More
London Pride London Pride has been handed down to us. London Pride is a flower that’s free. London Pride means our own dear town to us, And our pride it for ever will be. Oh Liza! See the coster barrows, Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high. Oh Liza! Little London sparrows, Covent Garden Market where the... More
London bombs What a difference a day makes. Yesterday London was united in euphoria following the success of the Olympic bid. Today I’ve heard words like shock, disbelief, grief, confusion, panic, calm. First there was talk of power surges on the underground. Then as reports came through of an explosion on a double-decker bus, the horrible truth... More
Teen ‘sleepwalks to top of crane’ A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found asleep on the arm of a 130ft crane, police have revealed. Police and firefighters were called to a building site in south east London, after a passer-by spotted the girl. The unnamed 15-year-old had apparently left her home near the site, climbed the crane and walked across... More
links for 2005-07-06 backstage.bbc.co.uk :: Front Page :: “use our stuff to build your stuff” (tags: rss tags webservices ideas prototypes services feeds apis BBC socialsoftware opensource mapping) More
Awesome! The waiting is over. The Olympics will be in London in 2012. What a superb performance by Seb Coe and the team. Fantastic decision, fantastic news. More
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner I am a bundle of nerves listening to the live announcements of the IOC’s whittling down of the contending cities for the 2012 Olympic Games. Moscow, New York and Madrid have been voted out. It’s now between London and Paris… the decision has been made and will be announced at 12.46 BST. More