Based on this http://j.mp/brdwhe I'd say USA were looking pretty good for the Ryder Cup

is older and wiser

Installed new disk. Fried motherboard. So what did I do? Tried it in another computer. Idiot. 2friedmotherboards

Ed M now opposes "the broad use of anti-terrorism measures for purposes for which they were not intended". What did he do about it pre-May?

Suppose KP & Cook continue to fail. Top 7 is then Strauss, Trott, Bell, Colly, Davies, Prior, Morgan. Good enough for the Ashes? cricket

I am not entirely in agreement with the selectors on the winter tour parties, especially the Development Squad

http://www.google.com/newproducts/

Twitter had already fixed XSS bug but it "resurfaced". Poor regression testing processes? Tut tut. http://j.mp/9aLjDp

Use HTML5 for your smartphone app and you're targeting the biggest market segment: both iOS & Android

Apple's share of the smartphone market declines again http://j.mp/cm36JI yet people continue to write apps just for it

UX design for evil: http://darkpatterns.org/ fabulous analysis

Combining Diacritical Marks test: sͫͦͩayers

I have learned something from Twitter's Trending Topics this mornin - Combining Diacritical Marks

23,000 Wikipedia articles to be removed or reverted to old versions because of one editor http://j.mp/cCED2x

IE9: Address box fighting for space with the tabs. Prefer Chrome's solution: tabs above address bar

IE9: Can't close a tab without bringing it to the foreground

TweetDeck failwhale http://flic.kr/p/8BoAaX - not seen this before

Apparently Geoff Miller has been on the phone to Yorkshire to ask how tall Moin Ashraf is cricket verytallattack

Commentary on County Championship matches! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/5livesportsextra/ Thank you, BBC

Somerset playing but not Yorks or Notts cricket

Yorkshire, at least, are on the field. Unlike Notts and Somerset. cricket

Quite liking Komodo Edit as a simple but efficient IDE for PHP, Python, XML, HTML etc.

And then there were 3. Final matches: Notts & Somerset away to good sides. Yorkshire at home to one of bottom 2. cricket

Yorkshire 209 to win cricket

Chrome tells me the BBC website is hosting malware: http://flic.kr/p/8zsHRz. This is the page: http://xoo.li/cgo1K1

Trying to write some reference code for an OpenID/OAuth-aware service integration pattern

At last @PeerIndex has calculated my Authority score. I think it means "not very authoritative" http://www.peerindex.net/dominicsayers

Did I dream the Compliant Chicken viral? If not, why are there no Google search results for it?

Gilbert and me doing some old-school analogue interlocking http://flic.kr/p/8zp2u7

Today is the 25th anniversary of Solid State Interlocking. And you nearly missed it. http://xoo.li/cxMwqS

Only just discovered Brett Domino - late to the party as usual http://j.mp/cpRwPr

My current portfolio: Notts to lose County Championship, USA to not win Ryder Cup, Milliband major to be next Labour leader

Will now be in profit if Yorks, Lancs or Somerset win Cricket County Championship - thanks Betfair

Given England's preference for very tall bowlers, do not be surprised if you see Oliver Hannon-Dalby touring this winter. YHIHF.

Most of the good stuff on Boing Boing today I'd already seen on Twitter ages ago. Boing Boing is so 2007.

My CAPTCHA from the Tweetdeck site: http://flic.kr/p/8xKVoy

Trying Tweetdeck for Android http://j.mp/b6umCw

Never knew he was Dr Gordon Brown http://j.mp/cnNk8W

A (speculative) answer to my question about Twitter and Bitly: http://j.mp/b0NJgx

Simon Hughes accuses Waqar Younis of being involved http://j.mp/dBQoQx cricket

"all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL": what does this mean for bit.ly etc?

This would be very good news: Legalise sports betting in India says Delhi court http://j.mp/bnS2hh /HT @nauiokaspark

"On May 11, David Cameron officially assumed the position". Well that's one way of putting it. http://j.mp/bdyiTs

For me "Scotland Yard" means HQ functions and the units under the Specialist Crime Directorate http://j.mp/d17Kvh

Standard criminal investigations are usually handled by BOCUs not based at New Scotland Yard

Is it only Americans who still refer to the Met as "Scotland Yard"? http://j.mp/bdyiTs

Some quite nice 2-letter ones too. bit.ly Pro + AdWords + short domain = off-the-shelf business

There's a surprising number of single-letter domains available at some ccTLDs

OK, it's true. We named our children after Ikea furniture. http://flic.kr/p/8xcaMK

ZOMG! It's September! Where did August go?