Archive For August, 2006
I hope Ryan sees this, but 6 tips for working at home with children lists 2 good work habits that anyone working at home should follow: Maintain a good work schedule, and stick to it. Take a long lunch and enjoy your opportunity to work from home. I haven’t been able to do either. I [...]
mod_gzip, zlib.output_compression or whatever way you compress your web pages is a great way of reducing your network traffic costs but comes at the cost of increased CPU usage. Despite what you might think, it can be more expensive to send data over the network, especially to slow clients than compress it first of all [...]
Not the cartoon character, but the ex-planet Pluto. Apparently it’s not classified as a planet any more!
Has anyone actually gone to see that Snakes on the plane film? The first I heard of it was woz-is-name reviewing it on Ian Dempsey’s show on Today FM a few days ago, although I remember Damien Mulley saying something about snakes a few times. I just thought he had a new hobby! Internet Hype? [...]
Funny moment #18472 in the working life of a software developer. What Thunderbird thinks of RSS. So much for those syndication feeds! Have you got other Spellchecker bloopers?
Gather around, let’s all say it together.. it’s Donncha, not Donna, never have been a Donna, never will be. It’s weird how people reply to my mails or comment on something privately, saying, “Hi Donna” when there’s no mention of such a person on this site or any other I run, well, apart from this [...]
What do you get when you ask a forum to photoshop two guys asleep and reading a newspaper respectively in an airport? Lots of fun photos that’s what! Some of these are so funny I laughed out loud!
If you’ve seen my desktop machine at home you’ll realise I’m a big fan of the Xgl and compiz stuff and now thanks to a Linux Journal article I’ve discovered the CGWD Themer. Installing it in Ubuntu is as easy as adding a new site to your apt-get repository list and firing up apt-get in [...]
Let’s ask Google: Rice Crispy Cake – 75 results Rice Crispy Bun – 17 results That’s what the Internet says and I agree. ‘nuf said! For completeness, it should be noted that It’s Kelloggs Rice Krispies but that name is trademarked as Andy just reminded me so people are more likely to spell it with [...]
One year on and still going strong! Lorelle was the first to notice but shortly afterwards Matt posted a nice message saying that yes we had forgotten to celebrate the birthday but it was great that one of our own bloggers had remembered. Nice list of trivia too! Reading through that list, it’s true that [...]
