Archive For April, 2004

Lynx Friendly Cartoons

The latest UserFriendly is a “Lynx Friendly” one! Hehe. Well, it beats the ones where they tried to find fault with Mozilla!

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PHP, MVC And Smarty Caching

Following on from previous posts on PHP and MVC and in particular on using Smarty caching in the MVC design pattern, I used Smarty to cache the output of an app at work this morning. I agonised in my last post about where to put the caching, should it go into the viewer, or the [...]

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Presenting The Amazing Human Kleenex!

Looks like George Bush has been busy on TV! This video clearly shows him wiping his glasses on someone elses jumper on the Letterman Show! Is this real? Can it be real? I hope he asked first! Read This… Via Hoffmania

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Taking Risks, What Rules?

Andy Williams’ latest post to the STF has some great suggestions. Basically, throw out the rule book and experiment! If you’ve a digital camera, why take only one photo when five will do? On my way into town the other night I saw this beautiful sunset in the rear view mirror. What did I do? [...]

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Getting Married?

If you’re getting married soon then you’ll need a wedding dress won’t you?

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STF: Panoramic Photos, and Street Photography

Two interesting threads on the STF today on panoramic photography and street photography, or shooting strangers. As usual Andy Williams posted an excellent summary of his own thoughts on candid photography.

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Rekall, aka MS Access for Linux

I found a short review of Rekall via Linux Today this morning. It has aspirations to be the MS Access of the Linux (and I suppose Free Software) world and while I’ve never used Access this little program looks impressive! The community supported RekallRevealed website has lots more, including screenshots and FAQs.

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Opening URLs in Moz Firefox

Does anyone else have problems sending commands to a running instance of Mozilla Firefox? I want Thunderbird to open links in new Firefox tabs but the following command fails: $ mozilla -remote “openurl(http://www.mozilla.org, new-tab)” Failed to send command. $ If I don’t include a URL then a dialog pops up asking for one but that’s [...]

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The King Of Hearts – Live This Weekend!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The The King Of Hearts are going to be mighty busy this weekend playing gigs all over Cork and Kerry! Owen has more details but they’ll be appearing in the Coal Quay Bar on Sunday night where much drink will be consumed and a good night will be had by all! [...]

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Song Analysis – Musical values in pop music and in Queen's music

I’m a huge Queen fan so when I saw this analysis linked on delicious I had to look! Unfortunately for me, it goes into musical theory and other stuff I have no idea about (or interest in) so I gave up quarter of the way through!

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