A very interesting tool that wraps Web 2.0 functionality up and houses it within the firefox browser. At first the thought of a command line driven tool in this interactive/Drag & Drop era is one that is set to generate a good ammount of interest.

So what is it about?
Well the phrase that this project is labelled with is "An experiment into connecting the Web with language". This indicates what the application hopes to reach in terms of long term goals, using command keywords to perform various actions when the user needs it.

This experimental Firefox extension that could allow you to reclaim time spent looking up that address on Google Maps. I for one like the wikipedia functionality as it's a daily stop of mine. So will the time needed to perform online tasks be reduced overall? Hopefully, but I think there are some steps in learning that will need to be mastered before you'll see any benefit.

There are some dangerous with such a system becoming bloated and full of useful functionality that nobody wants or finds useful. I'll keep my fingers crossed that  it remains that way, currently the functionality appears limited to a set of tools that I'd happily use on a daily basis.

There is a video here that displays the functionality:
http://www.vimeo.com/1561578

Some screenshots can be found one this tutorial:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_User_Tutorial

I've been following an interesting blog for the past few days over at the bbc website, written by Chris Jeavans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/monthwithoutplastic/

Chris is attempting to go for one month without buying or accepting anything which contains plastic or is packaged in plastic. A very challenging task and she has the plastic from a month with plastic for comparision at the end.

An interesting read if you get the time.

Well this is going to be the first of a bumper update, I'm afraid my time is limited to write down many things at the moment.

Dok has certainly turned an infrequent hobby into a splendorous display of photographs. Happily one of them was used on news article today.

Top work dok, keep up the good work.

Well I thought I'd give the newest search engine on the block a test, here are my first impressions after performing some searches for a few of my favourite online haunts.

My first search was for Khaosclan.com, the results where different to say the least. I would have thought that one of the returned links would be to the hompage of the website but sadly it wasn't.

So I then searched for Khaosclan excluding the suffix, yet again a direct link to our clan wasn't present, very expected results as yahoo, live & google return our website at the top for a similar search on those engines.

The News feature ( accessed by searching for news) is very basic and returned me a mixture of news websites from the UK and Austrailia. clicking the menu option for local news brought back numerous US news sites but I half expected this to be honest.

Additionally Cuil appears to have the annoying habit of adding seemingly random images next to a search result, these can vary quite alot and as far as I'm aware aren't from the website they are next to and have no relation to the linked item.

Sadly this search engine doesn't really give me what I'm looking for, If you have the time to page through to dig out what you are looking for then wonderful, but for an average user that is seeking that quick piece of information Cuil is one to avoid.

Today was my first day in my new job and after 7 hours of full knowledge absorbing day I have it admit it was bloody great! Nothing quite like getting to know an environment and systems by tackling some changes on your first day.

Additionally there is such a wonderful atmosphere in the whole office, something that sadly dissappeared in my previous role and was sorely missed.

So thanks to everyone that supported my efforts in going for this role, a massive step in the right directon for me.