robot text generator, make your own robots.txt

for all you web designers out there. This little tool generates a robots.txt for dissallowing robots to enter speified directories.
What’s more useful is that if you tick the box it will add a load of code to disallow a whole host of evil spambots which could harvest your email address. I normaly don’t allow [...]

Compost Ingredients

I seem to be getting in to these lists of what to do with stuff. This one’s about checking whether you can Compost things that you might throw away!

A-Z Disposal Guide

I found this A-Z Disposal Guide useful list of ideas for reducing waste by reuse or recycling. Some of it is specific to Edinburgh area I think – but most of it is pretty generic.
If you’re going to throw something out – this might be a good place to look for an alternative, more [...]

Change the world

I was told about this site today:We are what we doLooks good, lots of ideas of small ways that we can change the world. I’m not sure if they’re expecting to sell many copies of their book. It seems all the information is on the web site!

Blocking Unwanted Adverts with a Hosts File

Hi people,
I’m using this file now to stop 90% of adverts apearing on web pages and MSN messenger etc:Blocking Unwanted Adverts with a Hosts File
Now, there’s an argument to be had about how the web relies on advertising for its funding – but I very rarely click an advert and I’d rather not be [...]