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Wavelog – Posting from S60

If all goes well, this post should appear on my blog just like any other. “What’s so great about that?” I hear you cry. Well, this is posted from the new native S60 application Wavelog, made for posting to presumably any blog supporting the Wordpress API. Anyone who knows me will know how cool an [...]

Leopard Upgrade

So, I took the plunge and upgraded to Leopard while I had time to occupy over Christmas. Probably could’ve found something higher on my todo list really, but an impulse grabbed me when I was in the Apple store, and that was that. So, opinions. A mixed blessing really. User interface elements are a lot nicer, [...]

Published Photos!

The new version of the Schmap Manchester Travel Guide is out and guess what? A couple of my photos are included in it! Check the “The Great Outdoors” category for my photos of Etherow Country Park and Werneth Low. The wonders of Flickr…

WordPress Dynamic Links

One of the problems I’ve found with WordPress (especially when creating a simplified setup for less techy people) is that there’s no separation between internal and external site links. Sure, you can make a link relative to the site root with a leading slash, but what happens when you change the structure of the site [...]

Gallery Development

Being exasperated by the available offerings for photo gallery management within WordPress, I decided to do what every self respecting geek should do, and write my own from scratch. This way I can incorporate all the features I want, but at the same time keep it easy to use so it can be used by [...]

Extreme Rollerblading

For when 8 wheels just isn’t enough any more.. If this works as an exo-skeleton for the inevitable high-impact crashes, sign me the hell up! This post brought to you by the ridiculous inventions thread on SomethingAwful, and the letter J.

Todo checklist

Well, this is posted in ‘life’, but more as a test to populate the category list than anything else. I need a todo list of things that need sorting on this site. What better way to do it than in the site? Upload the sin city art in design I’m sure there’ll be more, but that’s a [...]

The (Failing) Semantic Web

The web is a mess. Since the beginnings of the explosion in use of the World Wide Web, browsers have been too forgiving on the validity of markup. This, combined with the open nature of the web, allowing anyone to publish anything, lead to the vast quantity of poorly written web pages making up the [...]

Weekly favourite Digg stories

I’ll do posts like this every week listing my favourite stories from the social news website digg.com, that’s D-I-G-G-DOT-COM. First up, scientists this week broke technological limits by making a fully working transistor at only a single atom thick. The possibilities for miniturisation of computers through this are huge, and once these are commercially available silicon’s [...]