Can and should ISPs block child abuse websites?

Plenty of comments on Rory Cellan-Jones' blog post about this topic with strong views on both sides.

The truth about recycling

I spotted this interesting article on recycling in the Guardian this week.

European working time directive 2012

Just spotted this note on Alan's blog about the end of the UK university if the 48 hour working maximum is applied. Of course I'm reading this on a Sunday evening :-)

If you use Google Reader to read blogs, have a look at the trends section and it'll tell you what time of day and what day of the week you read blog posts. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of blogs I read on a Sunday evening between 4pm and 11pm!!

Today is Safer Internet Day

As reported by BBC News and elsewhere. For the main site, visit the InSafe homepage.

Why is it "Safer" and not "Safe"?

Windows to Mac tips part 3: switching between apps

If you're used to alt-tab on Windows, then you can use cmd-tab on MacOSX to switch between applications. Note that Windows switches between all open windows for each application, whereas the Mac only switches between applications. If you wish to switch between windows within one application then you need cmd-backquote (cmd-`) although I've found that this doesn't work in all apps.

There are more MacOSX keyboard shortcuts on the Apple support site.

The music of my childhood

Read about Tony Hart who died at the weekend and listen to The Gallery on Vision On music (aka Left Bank Two by the Noveltones)

Review of Office 2007 contextual spelling checker

It's worth having a read of Thierry Fontenelle's commentary on Graeme Hirst's review of Office 2007 contextual spelling 

checker to see what the trade off between precision and recall means for users of a word processor.