The Regex Coach is an excellent desktop tool for Windows and Linux that helps debug and analyse your regular expressions.

After a chat with others about web browsing the other day, I suddenly realised that I don’t use bookmarks at all. Ever. It’s completely empty.

I’m a creature of habit - I only check a few pages daily and these are all listed here (for convenience only; I can remember the URLs) - this page is my home page all the time!

I think I’ve reached a point where memory and weblog combined have made bookmarks completely redundant for me. Any unusual websites of note I list here - any oft-visited sites I can usually remember. It also helps that I’m getting pretty skilled at using Google to find results quickly and accurately.

Is this common? Are any of you guys finding bookmarks completely redundant now?

Blaine and box comments aside, CNN seem to have a rather one-sided view of the whole event.

If you view the QUICKVOTE results on this page, apparantly 100% think that the event was “A heroic act of strength” and precisely 0 voted for “A stupid publicity stunt”.

I find that very difficult to believe! In fact, I voted for the latter, and my vote hasn’t been recorded - yet in the last five minutes or so another 60 or so people have voted Yes.

Screenshot available here

Since the beginning of June I’ve been running a little Winamp program, Personal Hit List (sadly deceased now), and I’ve just looked at my top ten played songs:

I’m just a little pop bitch really

My good online friend Simon Kittle has just launched a new company and an interesting product to go with it. The company is Lionkey Technologies and the product is called My Inventories. It is aimed at the homeowner; landlord; tenant, etc. market and is essentially a domestic inventory tracker. Which is very cool.

It looks like a good idea - I wish Simon the best of luck and remind him that by placing this advert on my blog he is legally bound to give me 20% 40% of the earnings.

First week of uni has been hectic. I’m a little annoyed about how many last-minute changes there have been to the schedule, but the lectures themselves have been good and very interesting.

The other thing I’m also glad to be back into is the DJing. For those who don’t know I DJ on the local radio station, Surge. Now for some gratuitous advertising

You can catch Sven on the radio every week, Sundays 1-3pm (The Sunday Show); Mondays 6-7pm (I produce Open Mic) and Tuesdays 8-11pm (Sven, Chris & Em show). All times are BST. Tune in 1287AM in Southampton area, or over the net at www.surgeradio.co.uk.

Gratuitous advertising in place, I expect everybody to listen now

Finally got that awful ‘Post from Blogger API’ message to go away. All is good in my life now.

I keep getting requests for p3p.xml on Blogwise, as well as one or two requests recently for a Privacy Policy to appear on the site (which I agree is quite important).

So, I looked at the W3 P3P page, then ended up running IBM Alphaworks’ P3P Policy editor - this has got to be one of the most complicated bits of beaurocracy I’ve seen in a while!

I think my policy is quite simple - I never re-sell or make public email addresses, they are used as contact points (and shortly, unique logins) in case of problem/update and any stats I make are completely anonymous. Cookies are used to retain user preferences…basically the good innocent use of cookies and emails. I have no idea how to encapsulate this in the P3P standard!

Maybe one day I’ll revisit P3P but until then I’m just going to put up a human-readable copy of the above!

Found via Hessis weblog, the url2bmp program looked like a quite promising solution to my ongoing problem of how to reliably capture snapshots of websites for Blogwise (see example here).

Unfortunately it doesn’t get around Internet Explorer’s annoying popups and prompts for things like Japanese language support, that has been dogging me for ages. I’ve tried using the Mozilla/Firebird engine in a home-grown app a while ago but couldn’t get the DDI calls to work properly.

Pinch punch first of the month. It’s Oct 1

This month is going to be a good month. Blogwise will be celebrating its first birthday at the end of this month. It’s also extremely likely that this month will see the number of blogs top ten thousand, and the number of page impressions tip 100K. Woo!