Archive For February, 2007
Despite my best efforts to put off releasing WordPress mu 1.1.1 for another day it slipped through my fingers, tarred and zipped itself into neat bundles on the download page and screamed at all and sundry that it was free. So, go on! Download and enjoy. As always, try it on your development servers before [...]
When Bill Gates and Steve Jobs fight who mediates and brokers a peace deal? The venerable Commodore 64! “Macs get you laid”? The stereotypes continue. (via and here)
Have you ever been annoyed when you blog a photo from Flickr and you wished the post had been saved as a draft instead of being published? I’ve used Flickr to host the images on my photoblog from the first post there but this plugin should make it easier and less stressful to use. Every [...]
Matt started the “company website run on WordPress” theme by posting that moo.com runs on WordPress, so here are two Irish companies that use WordPress to run their websites: Segala, a company involved in website accessability and trust. They have rather an interesting idea about content labeling. Paul Walsh, their CEO, “is Segala’s W3C advisory [...]
Look away now if you don’t want to know how this magic trick is done! When you press play you’ll never be able to go back to the sweet innocence and blissful ignorance of the entertained audience! Oh dear, you pressed play didn’t you? Ruined it for you didn’t you? Don’t say I didn’t warn [...]
This was one of those things that bugged me for ages but because I wasn’t sure of the terminology I could never find an answer for it. How do I edit a cell in Openoffice without doing either of the following? Double clicking on the cell. Clicking on the cell, then clicking on the edit [...]
Remember Fifty Percent Grey? I briefly mentioned it a couple of years back, little knowing that it’s creator, Ruairi Robinson, would be nominated for an Oscar for his work on that short film. Ruairi’s back, and thanks to Ruairi Roddy I found out about his new production. This time it’s a very cool short film [...]
Perl is complicated enough as there are a half dozen ways of doing any one operation, but what if you used Microsoft Vista’s speech recognition to type? I was only watching and wanted to stop the movie after 32 seconds, I don’t know how he kept going for 10 minutes! I dare you to watch [...]
Everybody and anybody who has an illness, a pain in the leg, a hurt somewhere, will use Google to find out what ails them. There is an inherent danger in that, but if you use a search engine that way, and believe the first result, then good luck to you, The Darwin Awards may need [...]
While everyone seems to be running to the new kid on the block, Google Reader, I stuck with Bloglines because I prefer the old-style interface and the sorting options over the new fangled web 2.0ish Google upstart. At the same time, I’ve lusted after some of the new features of Google Reader but Bloglines have [...]
