January 2012
1 post
Spam away!
Training up a spam filter. Feel free to spam this email address (honestly, it is me, not trying to annoy anyone else with it)
gila_monster@hotmail.co.uk
November 2010
1 post
A slight change… →
June 2010
7 posts
Moving on to Perl →
Exam tomorrow →
Should you have adverts on your website? →
Why is Chrome so popular all of a sudden? →
New episode of The IT Crowd! →
The new series of The IT Crowd starts in a week’s time, but the first episode’s already available online, so check it out! Wonderfully funny episode, replete with twenty-sided dice jokes!
First steps with PHP →
We English really suck at making salad - an few limp lettuce leaves, a slice or two of cucumber and a cherry tomato don’t make a salad! Greek salad FTW!
May 2010
7 posts
Creating 10 Most-Used Javascript Techniques Using... →
If Frankie Boyle's life is a book being read by a...
mine is a Choose Your Own Adventure book being read by Ralph Wiggum.
My current project →
This is the website I’m working on for a friend. Please let me know what you think of it via the comments!
New laptop ordered!
Ordered a new Dell Studio 15 laptop in the sale. Pretty good - 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, Intel i5 processor and ships with Windows 7 Home Premium. Can’t wait for it to arrive!
Devio.us - a fantastic free shell account provider →
If you haven’t tried this yet, give them a whirl. They offer free shell accounts running on an OpenBSD server, including all sorts of goodies such as:
PHP
Perl
Python
Ruby
A MySQL database
an email account
web hosting
GCC
In short, virtually everything that a shell account should offer, and the price is right too! And to top it off, they’re great people who are extremely...
Is Dreamweaver the best choice for developing your... →
New landing page
Added a new landing page here.
February 2010
2 posts
In Paris the customer is not always right →
Really interesting article from BBC News about customer service in Paris.
January 2010
1 post
September 2009
1 post
Passed!
Passed my CIW Foundation exam! I’m now a CIW Associate!
April 2009
2 posts
Looks like Twitter’s now really hitting the mainstream - will we soon see people complaining that their mum is now following them?
Installed the full set of man pages in Kubuntu - if I want to get any C coding done I really need to have them handy.
March 2009
4 posts
I can’t believe I completely forgot about the changeover to British Summer Time last night! Oh well, at least the evenings will be lighter
LMAO at this spam email on the Debian-Hurd mailing list! - http://is.gd/priK - how dumb is this spammer!
Installed the new version of Songbird - great cross-platform media player, kicks the crap out of iTunes!
The new Facebook update looks very familiar…
February 2009
38 posts
Managed to get through my feeds before half-six - yay! That means I can spare about three hours for Python coding this evening!
As you may have noticed, I’ve just discovered Blip.fm! I never use music services unless I can scrobble to Last.fm but Blip does that.
I’m thinking of buying an Arduino board. Can anyone recommend a good UK-based vendor that sells them?
Going to have a go at writing my first decent-sized Python program from scratch - a Breakout clone. Will Twitter how I get on…
Listening to To Hell With Poverty by Gang of Four
Why doesn’t Xfce get as much love as Gnome or KDE in Linux? It’s a pretty cool desktop, certainly nothing wrong with it.
Went on a quest for an Innocent Tuscan Bean Stew veg pot at lunch, but Tesco Metro in Norwich didn’t have them. Try Sainsburys tomorrow
Anyone tried the new Debian Lenny? Any thoughts on if it’s any good? I like Debian, but I just like Ubuntu better
You’ve gotta love a programming language that’s named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus!
I’m slowly getting to grips with Python. It’s a great language, but I really want to get into using it for web programming
Listening to The Knife
I can’t wait for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse to appear in the UK so I can check it out, even though the consensus from 1st ep not good
RT @tpb: Doomed to ‘life without music’ says RIAA: p2pnet news view Politics | RIAA News:- Are you ready for this? .. http://ping.fm/M7z2H
I love FailBlog! Always hilarious!
Cow Transportation Fail - http://is.gd/jOID
Impressing your date Fail - http://is.gd/jQMe
The G2 Magic is looking seriously sweet, and it’s on Vodafone in the UK! They have good coverage where I live too
Been wanting a new phone, maybe this is it - http://is.gd/jNWC
I’m so glad that it’s getting lighter in the evenings again and I don’t have to walk home in the dark anymore
I’ve been a lot more active on Twitter since I installed Twhirl again, and I seem to have acquired loads more followers!
I really need to get a better phone that I can actually use to update Twitter wherever I go. Already got an iPod Touch so iPhone’s out
Downing Street is very prompt about following people who follow them.
Wish I’d thought of this for the 25 things meme - 1. I get bored really easily
Anyone else on Twitter who works for Norwich Union? And not afraid to admit it?!