Nice to see that the new Digital Companion to the Humanities has done the obvious but rare thing of being fully published on the web, as well as on dead trees, and for free!

I’m particularly interested in the archiving section (one of my long list of things to do for the Green Party is look into that), but it covers everything from archaeology, to music research, to issues (fittingly) of electronic texts.

You shouldn’t curse your ISP, as I spent most of this evening doing – you should instead be resetting your router – or so I’ve now learnt. Apparently occasionally for no apparent reason their settings disappear and you have to do this. Which requires a minor act of contortion to press a button for which purposes you really wouldn’t want to suffer from arthritis or some other fine motor skill problem.

Grr – don’t you love computers…

I’ve now semi-completed a long overdue redesign for My London Your London. So I got to spend a few hours yesterday pretending that I understand CSS and PHP (by the time-honoured method of changing one thing at a time, then looking at the results, saying “oops, didn’t mean to make that column over-write the one next to it” then having another go.)

I think it works in Firefox and IE, but I’d particularly appreciate anyone using another browser checking it out. I’ll also appreciate any design comments and suggestions – I know I’ve got some readers with strong ideas about web design! It is not now fixed width. I know the last time I did this that was considered best; is that still the case?

For the (semi-)techies, it uses the Hemingway Bright template, and I found the discussion of the original Hemingway theme here very useful.

It has just been brought to my attention that one of my posts on Comment is Free, about the hideous crimes against women in the Congo, has been nominated for thread of the year.

Should you feel inclined to give the post your vote — which I hope might help to give the issue more publicity — you can do so here. (I’m up against Polly Toynbee, so the competition is tough…)

Green readers (and others) might also feel like backing Peter Tatchell for Blogger of the Year.

(You can only vote once. Voting closes midday Friday British time.)