February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
2 posts
“you want to go see a movie with your friend Joe. You can’t get away with...”
– has_many :through - Yak Shaving (I thought this was a great analogy of what a standard day as a computer programmer can feel like)
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
4 posts
Things Organized Neatly →
my new favourite blog
October 2011
6 posts
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs
7 tags
September 2011
7 posts
Dear websites, please let me enter phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and similar, using any combination of spacing and hyphens I choose, please especially do this if the number is always displayed with the spacing included. It is a lot easier for me to enter the number, and check I’ve entered it correctly, if you let me do this. The code to strip any spaces out, if...
Security questions on websites for password...
Are so dumb and annoying.
“Have you forgotten your password? Well, all you need to do to get it back is remember which of these questions you selected when you signed up for this website (and not any other website, which probably has a very similar list of questions) and which answer you gave for it at the time.”
Aggggghhhhhh, fuck off!!
Firstly, sorry, but I can’t remember...
mir.aculo.us JavaScript with Thomas Fuchs » Blog... →
Microsoft seem to be joining Apple in saying that Flash has had its day now that HTML5 has arrived (and, I guess, by extension that Silverlight has had its day - or failed to have its day - on the web, too)
4 tags
5 tags
August 2011
14 posts
Vizualize.me →
This site looks cool, turns you LinkedIn profile into a visual CV type thing (you need an invite to get in, I’m still waiting, but hope spamming this link will speed things up).
2 tags
“he awarded a senior Downing Street job to the former News of the World editor...”
– The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom – Telegraph Blogs
http://goo.gl/cpBnM →
Have a Kindle? Highlight text in Amazon e-books? Then you have a webpage filled with snippets at the ready! (via @Cyhwuhx)
BBC News - TV presenter Dan Snow 'sat on a looter'... →
A public service announcement
Despite the good work of sites like Snopes, some people still seem to have trouble identifying urban myths or internet falsehoods. Here are two handy tips on how you can spot one: Tip 1:
If you receive an email where the subject starts with one of the following:
Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: FW: FW: FW: or similar (or includes any other indication that it has been forwarded to several people before you),...
Amazon.co.uk Movers and Shakers: The biggest... →
Looks like baseball has suddenly become a very popular sport.
A Faster Way to Message on Mobile →
Are Facebook feeling left out because nobody was using their service to plan riots?
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card →
This is a pretty neat little “social experiment”, sadly I think you need to live in the US to take part.
July 2011
6 posts
June 2011
11 posts
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks →
never stops making me chuckle
