February 27th, 2008

Easter Eggs


Yes it’s Easter soon so Cadbury’s Creme Eggs roll out their advertising campaigns. I do like Creme Eggs as they are small and I don’t feel as guilty as I do when I eat a big bar of chocolate. Perhaps they should bring out a Fairtrade edition to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight!

Recent Posts

August 28th, 2007

Bad Superblock

My little mini-itx server does a sterling job as a home server. It makes available images, video and music all round my house via my wireless router/adsl modem. Just before I went on holiday I booted it and it would not start. When we got back from our hols I investigated ...
June 6th, 2007

Another use for Milk (and Lego)

I saw this on Hackaday - it's really clever. There is an Instructable here
May 16th, 2007

My Favourite Wordpress plugin (at the moment)

inlineRSS - this allows you to transform XML type feeds using XSL. This means you can make any feeds you want to show on your sight look exactly as you want. The only real requirement is that the server you run it on needs to be able to parse ...
November 23rd, 2006

Coincidence

screenshot I was doing a bit of XSL earlier this week - being a bit rusty I tried looking at something I had previously done with XSL. The only thing I could think of was a TV guide thing that worked with xmltv. There ...
October 23rd, 2006

Falling into the sea

I saw this on No Ideas But Things - and due to me getting on the You Tube bandwagon thought I would post it here. I think the footage of the guy 'high' sky diving is amazing. I find the rest of the site interesting aswell - mainly it's ...
October 19th, 2006

Web Development vs Cleaning Products

Is it me or are there a number a web development terms that are the same as some cleaning products. Here are the ones I have come across so far: SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - I think the connection with cleaning is obvious! AJAX - household cleaners - not ...
August 18th, 2006

A Simple in-swf debugger

When developing a Flash app for the web sometimes it can be painful seeing what's going on as you can't trace things in the browser - not that I'm aware of anyway. If you use FireBug in FireFox when you are developing you can set up a function in javascript ...
July 7th, 2006

From XHTML/CSS to WordPress

I wish I'd seen this before I redesigned and rebuilt this blog. Which by the way might still be teething a bit. At some point I will detail the various things I have done in more detail. I should include a link to the ...
June 30th, 2006

Turning off dotted lines in Firefox

Came across a small problem in Firefox last week. I had a list and was using 'text-indent: -5000px' in the css to do some image replacement. It's a bit weird because it made the list element quite wide so when you clicked the dotted lines that show where are clicking seemed ...

Stuff I Dugg

  • Very cruel joke

    This video can change your perceptions about the jokes

  • How has the BBC News changed over the years

    A video compilation of the opening credits for the UK's BBC News over the years - ever since that new fangled "television" thing was permitted to start broadcasting the news, long reserved for the radio.

  • New Eee PC will reward Linux fans with a bigger hard drive.

    Users who purchase an Eee PC 900 with Linux, however, receive a laptop that boasts 20GB of flash memory-based storage space. Customers who opt for Windows XP, meanwhile, end up with a machine equipped with only 12GB of solid-state storage.

  • The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook

    I kept telling myself that CSS should never be used for evil. That in the wrong hands, it could wreak havoc upon the face of the Web as we know it.

  • Let Best Buy "Professionally Install" Your XBox Games

    Are you one of the tens of customers who has trouble inserting their XBox 360 games? Do you find the whole concept of optical media frightening? Well, Best Buy has a service for you! For a low, low price, Best Buy will come to your home and professionally install those complex XBox games.

  • How A Google Engineer Hacks His Energy Usage

    Alexis Madrigal explains how Agilewaves' Resource Monitor makes homes' gas, electricity and water consumption visible in real time on a URL and touch screen.

  • Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull

    A new experimental technique is allowing patients in Japan to control robotic arms by thought alone. The broader implantation range gives a much higher degree of accuracy than has ever been possible.

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