My simple-mindedness means I’m a bit of a minimalist, which is why I prefer the Google Talk instant messaging experience to MSN’s Messenger. Nevertheless, as with most things Microsoft, the Rest of The World(tm) seems to use MSN, so if I want to talk to them I’ve gotta use it too.
I’ve fluffed around a [...]
The Flangy Guide to Hating VBScript is a better written, more complete and more technically correct version of my post a few months ago which I eloquently titled “VBScript is crap“. Flangy covers the main gripe I covered, which was about the inconsistency of when parentheses are needed, and actually explains what the story [...]
I’ve just received an email from Alex Tew of milliondollarhomepage fame about his site. (yeah, I bought some pixels back in September). Looks like the DDoS story is true, here’s what Alex had to say about it:
I’m pleased to report that The Million Dollar Homepage is back online after
almost 6 days of downtime [...]
Voting is open for the annual TripleJ Hottest 100, ready for the countdown on Australia Day. So you should vote.
You can vote for ten songs, mine are:
Butterfingers Fig Jam
Cat Empire The Car Song
Datarock Computer Camp Love
Devendra Banhart I Feel Like A Child
Herd I Was Only 19
Lady Sovereign Hoodie
LCD Soundsystem [...]
I finally got rid of the original WordPress theme, after I’d mangled it up good and left it lying brutalised on the site, trying to serve up my inane posts as best it could.
Now what you’re seeing (if not your RSS reader) is TrackJacket, by a guy named Daniel Ryan. I’ve messed with the [...]
I really need to get on the Ruby (and more specifically, Rails) bandwagons. I mean, with quotes like these:
It takes about half or less code to put my stuff together in RoR than it did in PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, etc.
I use to worry about giving my client an estimate and then running over the [...]
Google places lots of importance on inbound link text rather than just the text within a given page. So if you (or Sozialgericht Bremen) issue a cease-and-desist order in an effort to stop somebody from appearing as the top Google result for your name, don’t expect that it’s going to work.
Telstra’s fun and games with pair gain and RIMs are great for entertainment. Unless you’re the one who has to wait weeks for internet access, I guess.
My grandmother wants to get in on this whole internet thing, so I bought her a second-hand Dell box with a 19″ monitor (she can’t see very well), [...]
Over some tasty lasagne with some friends last week, the conversation somehow prompted me to bring up Telstra’s new corporate blogs by a few of their employees as part of their attempts at friendly openness on nowwearetalking.com.au.
My enthusiasm was dampened when the response was something like “what, so a bunch of employees [...]