Finally getting round to sorting out this website. It might take a while though.

More than ever, I’m short of time; with a wife, two kids (one with complicated medical situation), and two businesses. However, I do intend to write occassional posts here.

In the short term, I will be writing stuff about technology and computers, mainly to support my IT consulting (computer repair) business. Later, I might do more posts motor racing as the girls get a little old and I maybe take an interest themselves.

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Thanks,

Colin.

Google are at it again! They’re changing lots of things including the layout of Google Reader and Google Docs, and they’ve virtually hidden the ‘cached results’ from Google Searches.

I am sad to say that the New Look is here to stay on Google Documents (and Google Reader by the looks of it). I prefer the ‘classic view’ of gDocs but they’ve taken away that option. How very Apple of them.

It looks like there’s no way to get back the old interface of gReader either, although I haven’t thoroughly researched that point as I don’t use gReader at the moment.

Regarding cached results in Google searches, there used to be a link just under the search result for the cached copy, but now you have to hover over the double arrow to the right of the search result, wait for the page preview to load, then select ‘cached’ from the link at the top. Considering Google’s efforts to make search quicker, this change seems counter-productive.

It seems that Google has moved it’s focus from functionality to appearance.

In haste,

Colin.