Archive For October, 2005

blo.gs – something wrong?

I use blo.gs to generate the list of links over there on the rights of my site. It’s useful because it lists the links in order of last update. It’s not useful in that in the last 2 or 3 weeks spam links creep into the list without my intervention. Has this happened to anyone [...]

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Buying Furniture?

So, have you had the joyful experience of buying furniture? Then you have the grinding and frustrating wait for it to be delivered? Youu and me both! Looks like Dilbert has had the same experience.

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30 Google Hacks

O’Reilly have released 30 Google Hacks from the book of the same name.

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The power of the Sleep Cycle

The power of the Sleep Cycle – or how to get by on less if your time asleep is a multiple of 90 minutes.

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Carole Coleman: "I wanted to slap him"

Carole Coleman made headlines when she interviewed George Bush last year in the White House. Here was a reported who didn’t want to hear the same regurgated speel again and again. In this extract, she tells why, I wanted to slap him, and recalls the aftermath of her intereview with “the leader of the free [...]

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Bash Fun – history and navigation

Garret posted two very useful tips on his blog: Search history in bash – Hitting CTRL-r allows you to search the Bash history by typing a word. It’ll match the word and bring up that command! Super-useful inputrc enables you to CTRL-left and CTRL-right through your current command line, just like in the good ol’ [...]

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Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace

This is why WordPress.com strips Javascript from posts. The potential for devilment is limitless without filtering!

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Bush Left Behind

Via Yahoo News.. this perfectly composed photo of the US President: (AFP/File/Paul Richards)

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The Lobby Bar lives on … elsewhere

Donal posted that the The Lobby Bar will host a series of music events at the Half Moon Theatre. Looks like a couple of good gigs too! I took an amazing photo of their front door 2 weeks ago. No it’s not amazing, it’s only a front door. *shrug*

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WordPress PHP validator

Hmm, this PHP validator could be a very useful start to creating a safe template editor for WordPress.

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