Year: 2005
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Web designing
I’ve spent the last couple of days searching a solutions for my dad. He wants a site where he can write about his birds (that’d be the feathered variety!), so I’ve reccomended him BlogJet and and WordPress to fill his remit of “it must be stupid-proof”. Since deciding on the platform, I’ve set about customising Kubrick into something he likes. Which is…
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Activesync
Microsoft’s worse piece of software foils me again :(. I’ve switched my computer on without noticing the bluetooth dongle wasn’t left in, so I plugged it in after booting up and attempted to sync with my iPaq, only neither device could see each other, although activesync does see the com port and that it’s useable and open,…
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I got my first gnome package committed last night. The British translation for f-spot… Not much but it’s a start, i’m looking around for programs to start work on, or some nice easy bug fixes 🙂
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A long path
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Wow. This is a Star Wars RPG that like a good book, I couldn’t put down. The game is essentially an adapted set of dungeon and dragons rules set in the Star Wars universe. However all the geeky dungeons and dragons dice roles etc has been hid away….and…
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Ubuntu
I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux‘s Breezy Badger development version as my desktop for the last two days. This is because I’ve had a linux programming assignment to do and rather than ssh into the universities unix server and struggle with small windows and copy and paste failure, I thought I’d simply do it all in linux and use open…
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IOU: The debt threat and why we must defuse it
IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It IOU is a book by Noreena Hertz about third world debt, she discusses the different methods countries acquire debt, how those methods come to be and the downsides of each one. She then goes on to talk about why the developed world should care –…
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Structured blogging
PubSub have published Structured Blogging a website about a new way of marking up reviews of things in a similar-ish way that RSS marks up news. It also displays reviews in a different way to normal posts. Structured Blogging will hopefully allow all sorts of network effects across the “blogosphere”. I can imagine a Technorati like site, spidering blogs and collating reviews…
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Google speed-up
Google have just announced a prefetching feature found in mozilla based browsers such as firefox or camino. Basically if you’re using a mozilla based browser then google will start downloading the first search result in the background while you’re on the results page. This should give a little speed boost, this would be a useful feature to add to other websites as…
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After experimenting with drupal I decided to switch back to WordPress as I feel it is better for blog usage. However when I opened my drupal database backup it was corrupted, so I lost the last two weeks of posts, a couple of comments and a user (apologies Nick). I’m left feeling quite dumb. UPDATE: I’ve since managed to…
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Google News
Google have recently revamped their news service. It now features a “customisability” mode which lets you rearrange the order of the news categories and the number of items that appear in each category. They do this by dragging and dropping news category names around a little faux page, once you save your changes they reload the pieces…
Dean Sas 