Economy boost may mean pain later
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:31:05 GMT
Alistair Darling may be forced to set out future taxes rises to pay for a short-term boost to the economy, the BBC understands.
Johnson ponders immigrant amnesty
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:42:17 GMT
The Mayor of London is to commission a study of a potential amnesty for illegal immigrants in the capital.
Children 'risking liver disease'
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:38:38 GMT
Excessive drinking by children is causing a health time bomb, with record levels of liver disease in the under-30s, a charity warns.
Sea eagles could be reintroduced
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:23:36 GMT
Conservationists plan to bring the sea eagle, the UK's largest bird of prey, back to the skies above England.
IBM to build brain-like computers
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:52:33 GMT
A collaboration in the US is aiming to create artificial brain circuits that mimic the structure and workings of neurons.
Online time 'is good for teens'
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:40:43 GMT
Teenagers' use of digital media shows that time online teaches children important skills, a new study shows.
Google unveils customised search
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:09:43 GMT
A tool unveiled by search giant Google will let users tailor search results much more closely to their needs.
First test for interplanetary net
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:56:02 GMT
Nasa has successfully tested a communications system designed to work in deep space modelled on the internet
This Website
This site is powered by a number of technologies, mixed, blended, altered and in some cases
plain old hacked to create a website driven by dynamic content from site databases,
style sheets (CSS) and external content (RSS feeds read as XML). The brief descriptions below
dont really do justice to the full functionality available within some of the technologies and
are intended to give a flavour of the systems employed with associated links if you would
like further information.
Ubuntu™
Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops,
desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation,
document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
PHP™
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for
Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Satellite™
Satellite™ is an all in one photo gallery website that takes advantage of Yahoo
Flickr™'s image hosting and management tools. You can upload and manage your images
using Flickr™ and host your portfolio on your own server via Satellite™.
Flickr™
Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform.
It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for
users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo
repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that
allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. It hosts more than two billion
images - not all of them mine!
RSS Feeds
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish
frequently updated content including, but not limited to, blog entries, news headlines,
and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed" or
"channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the
full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites
in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.