http://kentwell.net/glenn Or, 101 Ways to Improve Your Life. And that's ironclad! Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:59:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today somebody sent me a link to MIS Australia's article about some ridiculous filters the ever-paternalistic Australian government is trying to foist on the Australian public for our own protection. Like, thanks you guys. Anyway I got feisty when I realised that you can't cut and paste from the Australian Financial ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/297 Gosh this blog looks terrible in Internet Explorer (at least in version 6), not that I'd advocate using IE unless you have to; especially now that Firefox 3 is out! Speaking of which, so is Opera 9, and IE8 is in beta. New browsers galore! Anyway, will fix, gentle reader(s). http://kentwell.net/glenn/296 OK I admit that the title of this post is slightly hyperbolic, but I've just installed and started using PmWiki to replace my well-worn, dog-eared copy of ASPWiki that I have loved so well since about 2003, I think. And, I've gotta say that I love it! Out ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/295 http://kentwell.net/glenn/291 I'm listening to an IT Conversations podcast of Rasmus Lerdorf (the guy who created PHP) speaking about PHP, and I have to say I'm pretty surprised to hear him say "I hate programming with a passion -- I created PHP to avoid programming." Rasmus says that he wrote PHP while building ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/290 Part of being an Australian means you need to accept that sometimes, an expression or offhand turn of phrase you hear a lot won't make much sense if you think about it logically. That's mostly OK because in my experience, people use phrases and clichés they don't understand without ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/289 The Buzzword Like any good buzzword (say...agile -- or is that AGILE? No, it isn't.), Web 2.0 is overused and bastardised to mean a thousand different things by some groups of people, and at the same time it's mocked and dismissed as just another buzzword by others. OK so it's March ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/288 Wow. It looks like my dreams are finally coming true; Krispy Kreme is opening in Brisbane! They were going gangbusters in Queen Street Mall today at lunchtime, giving away 500 dozen doughnuts and they had a giant Krispy Kreme sandcastle -- I don't know why they had that but it ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/287 There are a few things you need to be able to do before you can be considered a Real Man(tm). Change a flat tyre, scull a pint of beer (if not a yardy), read a map and, most importantly, tie a truckie's knot. Until today I was the girliest tier of ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/286 My Dad and I went with some friends on the 2007 Camp Quality esCarpade rally. We're still in Tasmania as I write this but we're heading back on the plane tonight -- thank the Lord we don't have to drive all the way back to Queensland. The 2007 esCarpade started ... http://kentwell.net/glenn/285