Two weeks ago, I was working in the beautiful city of Oslo. After a couple of hours, the client finally couldn’t take any more of my tedious hand-waving and badly drawn architecture diagrams so he suggested we had a five minute coffee break. In the immaculate pine kitchen, my eyes were drawn to a notice in Norwegian affixed to the kitchen cupboard. One of my hosts smiled and said ‘I bet you don’t know what that says’. ...

Not it’s not unavailable but Google have added support for offline reading of up to 2,000 items using the recently announced Google Gears. Another much requested feature and a surprising omission from Reader - the ability to search feeds - is also thought to be on the horizon.

I usually hate posts that start ‘Apologies in advance but I am going to be offline for 10 days because…’ I am going to a Web 2.0 conference in Dallas I smashed my hand into a glass window I am going on vacation I am really busy at work Personal stuff I am getting married I am going to an Oracle conference in Scotland The RSI is killing me My boss/wife/dog discovered this blog I am having a blogging crisis of confidence Family matters Mainly because the author inevitably pops up the very next day without any further explanation. ...

100 subscribers Who would have thought it ? Certainly not me.

The recent storm in the anti-blogosphere about Google acquiring Feedburner, the frightening prospect of Google placing ads in your precious feeds, capturing all your personal data, monitoring your every movement (online and offline) and logging your brainwaves into the Google data warehouse is starting to irritate me. Despite the corporate motto, please remember Google is evil and 2084 is just around the corner, folks. Be aware that Google just announced a partnership with global law enforcement agencies to upload all CCT footage to YouTube. ...