David Hughes

I seem to have run out of blogging steam, so I’m taking a break. While I’m away here’s a little something to keep you amused:

I love Jon Hicks’ Helvetireader theme for Google Reader especially as a Fluid app.

Joshua Brewer created a brilliant icon for use with Helvetireader and Fluid which I have used since day 1.

However of late the way the Hr icon sat with my other icons started to bug me; most dock icons are tilted over to the left but the Hr one was not.

So a few minutes in Photoshop and I have Helvetireader Fluid Icon Redux which sits a little better in my dock.

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I know I said I was taking a break but there is a conclusion to the Psion netbook trademark fiasco that I felt I should publish for completeness.

It seems that Psion and Intel have reached an “amicable agreement” and that

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Neither party accepted any liability. In light of this amicable agreement, Psion has agreed to waive all its rights against third parties in respect of past, current or future use of the ‘Netbook’ term.

I don’t know what deal was done, but I don’t feel that this rather grubby episode has done anything but tarnish Psion’s already diminishing reputation. Shame.

I’m back from a very pleasant week in sunny Cornwall, and catching up on my RSS feeds; I found this wonderful clip via Kottke.org.

Work like this makes my licence fee seem like good value.

I highly recommend heading off to YouTube and watching this clip in its full widescreen HD glory.

I love Twitter, and I’ve tried to spread that love far and wide. A question I’ve been asked by many is “what is Twitter?”. It’s not an easy to question to answer as it can be many things to many people, and what it is to you really depends upon what you want from it.

But I have now found, what for me is, the perfect description; from Chris Hardwick in an interview with Lifehacker.com:

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Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, “Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!”

I’m using that from now on – marvellous!

I’ve just discovered a wonderful tradition; the caffè sospeso, or suspended espresso.

In Naples when a customer is particularly happy with their espresso they will pay for two; the second being the suspended espresso.

Then when somebody who is homeless, or down on their luck comes to the cafe they can ask if there are any coffees in suspense; and then have a coffee courtesy of the first customer.

What a lovely idea.