The OED goes online. The Oxford English Dictionary took seventy years to complete. The fascinating story behind it’s creation can be found in the book The Professor and the Madman. Here’s a link to the OED’s page on it’s history.

[lastminute] Various Links on Lastminute: Comment from NewsUnlimited. The current share price from UKinvest and finally the site in question: lastminute.com

[lastminute ipo] BBC News reports that lastminute floats at 3.80 a share.

Yet another “is the Internet bubble going to burst” article. The lastminute.com IPO seems to be generating a bunch of them in the UK press.

[lastminute ipo] According to News Unlimited — lastminute is likely to be heavily over subscribed.

Yet another “is the Technology bubble going to burst?” article.

lastminute.com up’s it’s share price.

Be Afraid. MI5 is watching your email according to the BBC — especially if you get emails from David Shayler…

The Internet has been in the news alot today in the UK. Various Links: Nine high flying tech stocks join the FTSE-100 according to BBC News. BT to offer free net access — rather expensive unmetered access! This is London reports on the lastminute.com ipo.

According to The Economist the Internet is running out of names!

BBC News reports that the Internet price war is starting to hot up in the UK. I’ve recently moved over to btinternet.com — £9.99 a month for unlimited access at weekends and week-day nights.

Web Applications that I’m using a lot lately: spyonit.com and clip2.com