I went to give blood yesterday – something I’ve been doing every 4-6 months for the past few years. During all that time, I don’t think the procedure has remained quite the same for more than a single session. Every …
Read moreUbuntu costs 10 times as much in the UK as the US!
It would seem that due to the poor exchange rate, UK customers could end up paying up to 57% more for Windows 7 than US customers – and people buying in Euros could end up paying double. This is fairly …
Read moreA Viewer’s Contract
In my previous post I lamented the annual round of TV show cancellations, leaving plotlines unfinished and cliffhangers unresolved. But is there actually anything that can be done about this? I think one of the big problems is that we …
Read moreTo be (dis)continued…
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 …
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