December 11th, 2006
This is just a quick post but on making a new acquaintance today I figured I would share a stroke of genius that you all will benefit from. Say goodbye to office fighting on the “who makes the coffee” front and sign yourselves up for an account at Milk & Two.
Welcome to MILK&TWO, a site designed to take the hassle out of making tea for your workmates and buddies.
The idea is that you sign-up (creating a group as you go) and invite people around you. When someone wants a drink they put in a request and drinks are made once the number of requests hits a “critical mass”. Someone is chosen at random to make the requested drinks.
Go on… sign up for Milk & Two, you know you want to…
December 10th, 2006
Took this pic a while ago and it amused me so I thought I would share, I don’t love MySpace in the slightest although I have though about getting an account just to keep in touch with friends who use it…
Kinda scary concept, I’ll consult my doctor on monday!
December 10th, 2006
There have been many famous great words said in our time and I bet there are far more great unfinished words to be read or not as the case may be. I thought it might be fun to show you some of mine that are sitting about, let me know if there are any you would like me to finish…
- Windows is utter bollocks! Random freezes suck too
- Why is nothing ever straight forward when it comes to computers?
- Dirty Pixels
- Must See TV
- Puns are funny… here is a testament to that
- Boxing Cats
- Why colour contrast is important…
- Call of Duty 2
- I’ve S-ATA nuff of that!!!
I plan to finish some of them but figured I would ask you guys what you would like for once…
December 10th, 2006
I have been busy as hell recently, just started a new contract and it has knocked me for six after working at home for 5 months. I loved those 5 months but cash is cash and money is money and all four of those come in handy in my book so a contract it is just now.
So WTF is this post about? Well, since I have been busy and firewalled beyond belief I haven’t had a chance to check out the new arrivals at 9rules so tonight I took the chance to have a browse about.
So WTF is this post about I hear you ask again… in case you never decided to even mouse over any of the links above you will have seen a rather nice preview of the external site you are about to visit. I have to give a hat tip to Ryan Arrowsmith as whilst I was browsing his site I was pleased to be presented with screen grabs of external sites. Pretty cool if you ask me!
Now I don’t know if there is dodgy shenanigans going on in the background with data caching etc but to be honest, I don’t care, within seconds I had signed up, added a small line of code to my site and hey presto, added value for my users.
So now you know, this article is about giving props to the new members of 9rules as well as praising the lovely service called Snap which is a snap to use and adds value too.
Lemme know if you find this useful, I am finding it useful already.
November 30th, 2006
If I could have any sort of computer rig it would involve this, what would you choose in your ideal rig? Mine would also have a beer dispenser and something to do with JD & Coke seeing as I am going to move my computer into my boys room / office.
November 27th, 2006
Woo hoo! My mate Adam Cavill has converted his website to Wordpress and has started blogging, it was a true pleasure working with this guy and I miss his insane antics, I decided I should give props to his conference call coffee cup lid.
Watch this space as I’m sure there will be plenty of wierd and wonderful to come…
November 21st, 2006
My daughters computer currently runs XP Home Edition at the speed of a dead slug and doesn’t serve much purpose other than that of a photo holding tool, an expensive chat client and a rather neglected office suite. What I want to know is if any of you out there have had any encounters with using Edubuntu?
Now I have been using Ubuntu and have been really happy using it and have noticed a great increase in responsiveness and a lack of spyware / malware related slow down. I would love to do a similar thing for my daughter but at the same time give some other stuff that she can do with her laptop.
Edubuntu looks like is could be really good for her, the KDE Edutainment Suite looks like it could be really good for her when it comes to learning things like Fractions and the whole OS looks like it has a lot of things she would be able to play about with when bored.
Is it a wise thing to push something like this on a child who is used to using Windows? Gaim looks like it can be customised enough to soften the blow of moving away from MSN messenger. Okay, so it’ll never have all the tools that messenger has but it works, it does its job and she would still be able to talk to friends and relatives. She would be less likely to get involved in illustrious smiley downloads and garbage that comes with and circulates around the whole MSN thing.
I currently have Open Office installed on her machine as there is no point in forking out the price of a small car for a set of tools I can get for free and at the moment she could use The Gimp for image editing as it is probably easier to learn than having to un-learn Photoshop. I do have a concern though, schools use Microsoft Office so will she be at a disadvantage learning in duality?
What do you think? Is this a wise move? I’m sure I can tweak the machine to see to her every need, the repositories and package manager for Ubuntu are second to none so I’m sure she might actually have some fun looking for software that she wants to use. Rather than impose an operating system and software on her, I could encourage her to explore her computer and embrace open source (ha ha… my evil plan).
I think this is probably one of the better ideas that I have had and in the future I believe that Open Source will play a bigger part in the commercial environment so it is probably a good thing that she is exposed. Beyond that though I really really appreciate any feedback I get from you all as this isn’t just cleaning her computer out, it is sending her on a completely new journey into the land of computers and I want to make sure it is the right thing to do…
November 19th, 2006
Bang & Olufsen have teamed up with Samsung to bring you a ridiculously expensive but pretty sleek phone called Serene.
Quite nice huh? This is what it looks like when it is open…
Now I would say that it is looking even sexier but not only does it look good in your hand and have a sexy jog wheel for navigation, it will also impress your mates when they walk into your office and see this little beauty docked.
All of this can be your for a mere $1200USD… Now if only I can get a note to Santa before he gets here…
November 18th, 2006
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. - Bruce Lee
How many times have you built something from scratch? One of the key elements of web development is building a library of snippets of reusable code. Whether it be a drag and drop Wordpress theme that you use as a base model or even a stylesheet template that you use for all of your work, it saves you time and allows you to develop quicker.
What sort of templates do you use?
November 17th, 2006
We just got this picture back from the nursery, Elsie has her photo taken a while ago and this is the best one by miles… Just thought I would share it with the world seeing as I got it on CD!
Isn’t she beautiful!
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