I’m not sure if this sort of thing happens regularly or not, but MSN’s news service seem to be taking a pot-shot or two at Microsoft here, on behalf of Apple.

Maybe it was a birthday present.

On a vaguely related note, the infamous Game Girl Advance isn’t very impressed with Apple’s latest baby, GarageBand – and she tells us all so in a very sarcastic manner.

After seven months, it seems clear that I do not possess the drive or sense of urgency required to actually keep a worthwhile blog. Funny that, I happily put work into setting the damn thing up, but when it comes to actually using it, I am a slacker of the first magnitude.

Perhaps it’s time to relax my standards a little.

The original plan was that this would be a place to muse on those things which interest me – to expand a little on flights of fancy, and to comment or report on the world of information I happen across each day.

Maybe letting things slip and deciding to allow myself to get away with just posting links will encourage me to post more regularly.

In that spirit, I’ll drop in links to some places that have been providing me with reading material of late.

Cateland’s Weblog is as good a start as any, and better than most. She has a nice turn of phrase, and her view of the world is refreshing, amongst the morass of blogs by tech-obsessed youngsters like myself. Rather than analyse what she writes about, I’ll leave you to go read it and find out for yourself.

I still pop by Clive Thompson’s excellent Collision Detection most days, and would like to apologise in advance for how many things I am liable to link to in future come straight from his site.

Peter Merholz at Peterme is one of the more insightful bloggers out there concentrating on design, and specifically on graphic design and the representation of information. His recent piece on the US National Parks’ graphic system makes for fascinating reading and kept me amused during one of those interminable waits for a PDF to be generated from a QuarkXpress document.

Most recently, I’ve been agog at the sheer beauty of the new Sleater-Kinney website. Aside from creating some of the rawest, smoothest and downright sexiest rock out there, the girls always display impeccable taste, and getting Yuri at Myono.com to design and build their new site is no exception.