Classic review from The Times Archive of The Beatles.

Interesting piece on CNN about the army of volunteers in China translating content in near realtime:

The Guardian set up a Django site to crowdsource analysis of the released (and redacted) MPs expenses claims. The Nieman Journalism Lab has a good piece on the lessons learned.

Google asked people in Times Square: “What is a browser?” Oh dear.

This won’t mean much if you weren’t in to computers in the UK in the 80s and 90s. If you were, however, you’ll probably be sad to note that PCW - the magazine we all used to read - has ceased publication. Guy Kewney has written an obit for TheReg and here’s another from former editor Gordon Liang. Finally, here’s a picture of the first issue. Read ‘em and weep.

When I first set up this site back in 2005 I looked around for a blogging platform and chose ExpressionEngine. After years of bad experience with PHP (it’s such a mess) I was relucant to use a platform based on PHP but EE is a good and well thought out system. (BTW EE is about to release version 2.) So there we were.

The Mumbler: says a lot but never transmits any information.