Al’s Blog

Announcing my first Google maps mashup - my Pub Finder. It integrates content from the great www.BeerInTheEvening.com site with maps, and then gives variably coloured icons denoting the rating of the pub.
To use it: move the map to an area you’d like to visit. If no pubs appear, then enter the placename of where you [...]

Tired of sitting through automated menus when you call companies? Some enterprising fellows have setup the gethuman website which will tell you the ‘cheats’ to get through to a live person. UK listings here

What an incredible Firefox plugin! Shows all your tabs in a discrete location letting you flip between them - and also lets you search across all tabs simultaneously.
Go and download it now - The Reveal Extension

Once you’ve read a book, why not swap it with someone rather than let it gather dust? There are other swapping sites on the net, but www.readitswapit.co.uk doesn’t work with a points system so it you can request other books as soon as you’ve uploaded your own list.
I just uploaded a bunch of my books [...]