Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

Created in Birmingham is currently in with a good chance of winning Best UK Blog 2008 (sic). A comment on Neil Clarke’s blog suggests that this success is because the awards have been fixed. Actually, it’s because an enthusiastic bunch of us have been tireless in drumming up votes. Created in Birmingham helps to link [...]

These are my links for 6 January 2009 through 8 January 2009: Vote for Created in Birmingham – Vote now to see Created in Birmingham beat the Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips to Best UK Blog award. Vote for Created in Birmingham to beat Daily Mail blogger! – You should also vote because Created in Birmingham [...]

The fabulous Created in Birmingham has been nominated for Best UK Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. But currently it is second to the Daily Mail’s Melanie Phillips. So whether you love Birmingham or loathe Phillips and the Daily Mail, please vote for CiB now!

These are my links for 4 January 2009 through 5 January 2009: Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 – Simply Google: all of Google's services in one place – This is a nice idea, if it really does what it says. Google is so big now and lots of blogs, services and tools that can be [...]

These are my links for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52: The history of PC hardware, in pictures – An interesting pictoral history of firsts: trackball, mouse, laptop,PC, Apple, RAM, disk drive, etc. Test new html5 elements – Bruce Lawson's test page of new html elements that can be used right now. Digbeth is [...]

For the record, I’ve never been happy with labelling a web feed as RSS: particularly as it is often used as a generic term for feeds using other technologies (such as Atom). However I am yet to be convinced by the arguments for using different terms. Certainly I agree there is a need for better [...]

When I spent the day blogging from Birmingham’s Number Eleven bus route I asked some questions that I had intended to find answers for. Well, better late than never, I’ve done a bit of research and here are the results. “Witton Road, under a railway bridge. Where am I now? I genuinely have no idea.” [...]

I went for a walk in Cannon Hill Park yesterday with Karen Strunks and Ben Whitehouse. The following video is Karen’s account of it.

Everyone else seems to be writing New Year resolution blog posts so here’s mine. Blog more regularly. At least once a week. Write my ideas down. I have loads (usually rubbish), and tend to be too daunted to do anything with them. Set myself a project every month. And see it through. Watch a TED [...]