As it’s St Patrick’s Day tomorrow, the website of the day this evening is www.saint-patrick.com  – a site which gives a bit of background into the man himself and his role in the history of Ireland. Slainte!
16 March 2006
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15 March 2006
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Competing in a land down under
Today’s website is the official site of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, at www.melbourne2006.com.au. Take a look and see how many competitors from the Cook Islands you can spot!
14 March 2006
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Wish you were here?
Today’s website is the Postcard Crossing Project at www.postcrossing.com. It’s a site where you sign up to swap postcards (real ones, not e-cards) with other people around the world. So you can pretend that you’ve got real friends who will … Continue reading
11 March 2006
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Why your hotel doesn’t show up in Google (clue: it’s not their fault)
There’s an article in the travel section of today’s Times, bemoaning the fact that you can’t find hotel websites in Google. I was sufficiently moved by it to send them this email:
9 March 2006
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Talk to your future self
Today’s website is www.futureme.org – a site that, in the words of the creators, is is “based on the principle that memories are less accurate than emails”. You can write yourself an email and then set it to be sent … Continue reading
8 March 2006
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I’ll name that song in, er, fifty taps
Website of the day today is www.songtapper.com – a site that claims to be able to identify a song while you tap out the rhythm on your space bar. But it kept telling me that my song was Bohemian Rhapsody…
7 March 2006
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Nice cup of tea and a sit down
Today’s website of the day is www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com which, despite the name, is really more about biscuits than tea and sitting down. Complete with biscuit review of the week, and polls of the most popular (and least popular) biscuits, this is every … Continue reading
1 March 2006
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All about Lent
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. So for today’s website I’ve picked one which gives a good overview of what Lent is all about. You can see today’s website of the day at: http://www.crivoice.org See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent
1 March 2006
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Why you can’t have too much information in your database
This question was posted in uk.net.web.authoring: I’ve got a site on the way, where I need to add products to a sort of simple shopping basket. The plan is to add a pair of values (UserID, ProductID) to a MySQL … Continue reading
1 March 2006
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Websites of the day
I do a sort-of-daily “website of the day” slot on Cross Rhythms City Radio, at around 6.20pm during Rimmerama. These are the sites I’ve used so far: