Carved my first pumpkin today along with Fiona. Loads of fun and I hope the kids enjoy their sweets and scares this evening. Happy halloween all. Boo!

Sifter asks for your credit-card even though it is a 30-day trial. Old trick (people forget, people go on holiday, “cancellation pages” go down etc.) Also it asks for a Zip or Postal Code. Only the Dublin area has postal codes in Ireland, so I can’t sign-up.

Irish Net Visionary Awards, sorry to be a curmudgeon but could you update your website and could those reporting on the results use links. I just went through the Web2Ireland list copying and pasting words into Google in the vain hope of finding out who the winners are. I still can’t find Webtools Software, there are a billion results for that. My main point is that as it is named “net visionary” you’d think links would be used and websites updated on the fly. Bah humbug.

Google’s SearchWiki is an interesting development. You can vote up results (promote), remove them, comment on them and even suggest alternate URLs for your search. Some competition for and ideas from Wikia it seems.

RJDJ is a funky iPhone app. that samples sounds via the microphone, runs it through some built-in loops and outputs it to your earphones as a song. Some great results and some weird ones too.

Tell Asus and Intel about your dream laptop and they may just build it. Consumer powered design is part of our future.

Stephen Fry has a blog and it is powered by WordPress, nice one.

What not to say about Android applications; “I believe it will evolve much the way Linux did,”

Leah did it again. Slept from 19:00 to 07:00 without waking for a feed.

A 40″ 1080p OLED screen that is just 8.9mm thin. Crikey.