Well it seems the next major technology war has kicked off on the web. Google has opened up its beta social service to all and sundry. At the same time Facebook have had another major face lift and announced their intentions to become a content hub for the Internet.

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I've recently started using org-mode's time tracking to keep track of what I spend my time doing at work. This was in response to being asked by one of my managers what I spend my time doing and basically being forced to guess.

Setting up a clock page is …

[caption id="attachment_2385" align="alignright" width="112" caption="What does this do?"]Picture of Lord Townsend investigating something for Science[/caption]

We had a slightly extended weekend as we headed up North to visit friends in Manchester before heading over to the Yorkshire Hippie enclave of Hebden Bridge for Victoriana …

The weekend was both incredibly efficient and lazy in equal measures. We headed into town bright and early at 9:00 in a bid to miss the rather nasty traffic Cambridge inflicts on it's driving population. I would have cycled were it not I was picking up our new Smart …

I've taken to running the latest emacs from a source tree install. It works well enough and additional modes I use have been liberally ${VC} fetched into my .emacs.d. However there are still a number of packages I'd like to use from Debian's emacs version agnostic site-lisp directories. I …