James West's Blog

Scotland, actually. I love Flickr , and have it set as the homepage in my browser . But the mapping is terrible. I've always wanted Fl...

MacBook battery Originally uploaded by westy48 I've just replaced the battery in my MacBook. Not with an official Apple battery, which...

I do like a good podcast. I subscribe to several that are a mix of UK radio shows I can't listen to live, US public radio that's bee...

Earlier in the week, for reasons that I've not been able to work out, Safari died on me. Clicking bookmarks in the bookmark bar froze th...

All over my twitter stream for the last few days have been people tweeting and re-tweeting this screen-grab of a map of the Middle East fro...

Twist Our Words from Channel 4 is a lovely little toy that let's you drag words in a fridge magnet poetry kind of way and get then turn...

LEGO Twitter Fail Whale , originally uploaded by tveskov . This is a boiler plate blog post intended for use in case of emergency only. In t...

Someone is running a black op on the internet. Write a tweet mentioning "Spooks" or including hashtags like #BBCSpooks and one or...

Maps are cool. Being able to read a map is even cooler. We're lucky in the UK to have the Ordnance Survey making beautiful, useful maps....