Consider how you would feel if you bought a book from a bookshop and found that the last chapter was missing. Or if you’d been reading a series of books, and the last one was never released. Of course no …
Read moreAn interesting take on the UK plug
The UK mains plug (also used elsewhere in the world, but best known from the UK) is a large and chunky lump of plastic. That’s not a bad thing – it sits very positively in the socket compared with mains …
Read moreMicrosoft Backs Down
It would seem that Microsoft has backed down on the restrictions in their $10,000 treasure hunt, lifting the limitation that Internet Explorer 8 has to be used, and removing some of the contentious wording used on the site. I do …
Read moreYet again Microsoft miss the point
I can easily write a web page using standard HTML and CSS and have it display correctly on every major web browser… except Internet Explorer. I can even throw in some advanced code in the form of SVG, canvas and …
Read moreWhere have all the red pandas gone?
A few weeks ago we took a trip to Whipsnade Zoo for my girlfriend’s birthday. Her favourite animal is the red panda, so she was a little disappointed to find a sign on their enclosure saying that they’ve been moved …
Read moreAnother one to try
It seems that every man and his dog is bringing out a netbook OS of some description. Jolicloud another that looks interesting – it appears to be a Linux-based OS with a netbook optimised UI. From their “First Look” screens, …
Read moreSearching in a XUL tree – the XML version
Today on Planet Mozilla I came across this post by Daniel Glazman searching a tree generated from a SQLite template. This reminded me a lot of a similar trick that I play in our XUL code for searching a tree …
Read moreDell discontinues the Mini 9
Typical. Just as I’ve finished writing a few entries espousing the benefits of the Dell Mini 9, Dell decide to discontinue it 🙁 Dell’s closest replacement is the Mini 10v. This has a lower price point than the Mini 9 …
Read moreUbuntu wallpapers
Given that one of my complaints about Ubuntu 9.04 is the uninspired choice for the default wallpaper, I thought it might be worth sharing this link that I found on a planet Ubuntu post a few days ago: 60 Beautiful …
Read moreNew Vista installation… Linux to the rescue
We’ve just bought a new laptop for one of my colleagues here at work, and I’ve been charged with getting it set-up for him. Mainly it’s just a case of connecting it to our network, but I’ll also run any …
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