I’m in the market for a new car. I’ve reached the point where my trusty old Toyota Carina is ready to be passed on. I’ve had 7 years of motoring with very little trouble from it.
I’ve had a recommendation about Car Giant, who sell cars on a high turnover/low profit basis, which means that instead […]
At the recent Oxford Geek Nights event, Simon Willison gave a presentation about OpenID. I think it’s worth a mention on its own, as sites like LifeHacker are picking up on it.
The idea behind OpenID is simple - replace hundreds of "per site" identity systems with a single sign-on system that can be used anywhere.
This […]
http://www.thisisswindon.co.uk/display.var.1213771.0.potty_rules_mean_author_may_be_sued_for_paper_cuts.php
THE author of a book honouring First World War soldiers has been told he needs £5m worth of insurance to sell them on council premises.
The cover Mark Sutton needs is to protect against people dropping books on their feet or getting a paper cut and then suing the council.
Good grief. Anyone cite me a case […]
1. Which 1992 film received a nomination which gave away the plot twist?
The Crying Game, for Jaye Davidson’s nomination. If you don’t understand why, email me, as I don’t want to give it away.
2. Who is the only actor to have won 2 Oscars for the same performance?
Harold Russell, a wartime amputee in Best Years […]
A bit of fun…
1. Which 1992 film received a nomination which gave away the plot twist?
2. Who is the only actor to have won 2 Oscars for the same performance?
3. Which director didn’t collect his Oscar in person because he was playing clarinet that night?
4. What is the only animated movie to have received a […]
OK, I’ve got Wordpress 2.1 running. All nice and stable.
The new features that I like:-
Page as front page
Draft Page option
Nicer Image Uploads
AJAX autosave of drafts
I was toying with the idea of converting the blog to Django, but I just feel that’s going to take a lot of time, so I’ll stick with WP for now. […]
I’m not currently doing much on my Ubuntu/Inspiron 2500 setup, so it seemed an ideal time to move up from Dapper to Edgy. I should have remembered the old adage about "if it ain’t broke…"
I’m now getting display problems, which reading around sound like something to do with xorg.conf. Anyway. the good news is that […]
I decided to try out the feed reading in Opera Mini mobile browsing, and it works very well. When you visit a site which has an ATOM/RSS feed, it detects it and gives you a "subscribe" option. You click that and it gets added into your feed list. In the case of sites with multiple […]
A few weeks ago, Skuds had a ponder about the charts. In particular, the changes in the system that means that there is no requirement for physical product to be sold:-
if someone downloads, say, the new Amy Winehouse album which includes a couple of singles in the charts, would that count as one sale for […]
I remember this conversation with a co-worker many years ago, back when I was coding on an ICL Mainframe. The subject was selecting technology. We came up with "The Rule of The Top 3".
The rule of top 3 dictates that if there are a number of products that can do the job you want and […]
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