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Why do radio travel reports always refer to ongoing accidents? ‘There is an ongoing accident at Junction 6 of the M27…’

Slightly more normal posts returning soon… just going through a hectic phase…

http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/intro/

What a good idea. By simply inserting this Javascript into the start of your page, you no longer need to worry about IE errors with CSS and stylesheets. The script works (I think) by modifying the DOM on the fly to suit IE’s render engine, applying all sorts of hacks and workarounds on the way – neat!

Heard on the radio the other morning… Scientists have determined that December the 4th at 12.30pm is the average time at which adults stop looking forward to Christmas and start stressing about it. If it’s not true it certainly feels like it should be!

Congratulation by the way to Woodge & family whose baby daughter, Kajsa Christina was born on the 2nd.

http://www.plazes.com/

A geo-location directory; works by spotting which routers you’re using to get to the net and using that to look up where you are. Neat – I ought to look at this in more details, sign up and have a play!

http://spaces.msn.com/

When did blogging on MSN appear? That one completely passed me by.

Update: Yesterday, apparantly…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4059291.stm

The term "blog" has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher.

Merriam-Webster said "blog" headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months.

Tonight I travel to London for the Student Radio Awards at the Shepherds Bush Pavilion. Surge is nominated for 4 awards this year including Station of the Year and best Technical Innovation. It’ll be fun – last year’s was excellent.

Since Hanni‘s gotten me addicted to Flickr (a photo sharing service with more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at), I’ve been fiddling with some of its features and come up with this page.

If this works, I’ll be able to send photos from my Nokia, via Flickr, onto this page. A live photo log of the Student Radio Awards. I know photologs/moblogs aren’t exactly new, but it’ll be the first time I’ve tried it. Keep an eye out on that page tonight (from 7pm GMT) for photos from the Svencam!

Nine things you probably didn’t want to know. I’m wearing gloves from now on. (from Planet Dan, via Woodge. 100% recycled links).

Google Scholar has just been released. It lets you search a subset of Google’s vast database, covering all sorts of academic documents. Rather neat – I could’ve done with this last year! (via Silicon.com)

Since I spend most of may days in front of a broadband-connected PC (something I’m becoming less and less proud of), I often can be found with Winamp running listening to my favourite stations.

Of the regular top ten at Shoutcast, Radio Paradise (listen) is my favourite. A great selection of music across genres, well-chosen and always a pleasure to listen to. I’ve yet to hear a single song on Radio Paradise I dislike.

Frequence3 (listen) is a French station. Much more modern than RP, but plays the more sensible chart songs from around the world (including quite a few French songs too, quelle surprise there).

Hitzradio (listen) is even more chart-focused, although it would be better if they didn’t play Destiny’s Child.

And of course I can’t avoid adding SURGE (listen), me ol’ station, to the list!