Beekeeping diary: the hard life of a bee

Second in a series, the burgeoning colony seems to be faltering slightly in its first week.

At home with the Apple TV

Hands-on experience with the Mac/Time Capsule/Apple TV home entertainment set-up. It's very pretty, but it doesn't 'just work' as much as you'd expect from Apple.

New Wikipedia-based search engine disappoints

A search engine launched today - Wikiseek - uses Wikipedia as its base for a general web search, but its results are pretty weak.

Citizen photographers unite

The mainstream media has deemed to create a place especially for citizen photographers to make a distribution network after their photos kept getting nicked.

Afternoon T

The Telegraph in Britain has come up with a new daily news pdf freesheet and here you can comment on it and influence how it goes.

Telegraph gets a makeover

I know it's not strictly news, but one of my favourite news sites, telegraph.co.uk, has redesigned its news page. It's wider and the pictures are bigger, all that stuff. I like it. I wish they'd get their story pages sorted out, they're still narrow.

Tories form new European Parliament grouping

Policeman shot by three-year-old son

A police officer was shot and critically injured by his three-year-old son after the boy managed to get hold of his gun as they were driving.

TV standby buttons will be outlawed

It's all to cut global warming. No more standby, hello energy-saving light bulbs.

Telegraph | News | Nelson's Column is 16ft shorter than everybody thought

First with tape, then lasers to make sure, Nelson's Column has been measured and found to be a bit of a tiddler.

Telegraph | Money | Bloomberg finds home for charity

Me too, says Michael Bloomberg.

Socks and the singles girl on Centre Court

Bethanie Mattek, Venus WIlliams, Harrods and the perfect pair of £10 football socks.

Pet cat pulled from wreckage of digger house

A cat missing after a man used a JCB digger to destroy a house was pulled from the rubble alive and well yesterday. Aaaahhhh.

My night in jail, by Prisoner NW4546

The 'crack alley' pensioner who was bailed out of jail and not very happy about it, gives an interview

Telegraph | News | Betting scam claims cloud Britain's Wimbledon victory

Pioneering TV chef Robert Carrier dies

The first TV star

Telegraph | News | Waite questions peace tactics

Is there a growing backlash against people going to war zones to help out?

Milosevic blood showed he took wrong drugs

Telegraph | News | Lib Dem leadership race enters final leg

The LibDems are looking like they'll take the balance of power in the next General Election. Will they go for youth (Huhne), seniority (Campbell) or the other one?

BBC NEWS | Health | 'DNA target' to block HIV found

The Click That Broke a Government's Grip

Looks like China can't keep things as quiet as they'd like.

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