From Rentokil to Multimap.com

Yesterday was my last day at Rentokil Initial. I've had a productive year and half there and I wish all of the rest of the team all the best for the future. Interestingly on my last day Clive sent round an email with a link to a BBC article about…

One, Ten, Five?

Awooga! Meme alert. Robert kindly sent me this meme so I will do my best to answer to it, lets see if my memory serves. One year ago Exactly one year ago Sandra, Emma and I went to Harrisons Rocks for a walk. This time of year is so nice…

Friday Afternoon Videos

The video of Ethan Winer playing his song consisting of 37 Cello parts is as amazing as the one of Jake Shimabukuro playing while my guitar gently weeps on a Ukulele. (Hattip to the excellent Kill Ugly Radio) (Via Shaun Inman).…

What does your bookshelf say about you?

Matthew Pennell tagged me along with rest of the members of a entire list (the nutter!) in starting his meme, "What does your bookshelf say about you?". I've uploaded my picture to flickr so go see for yourself (the pic on Flickr is complete with notes so it's…

Element Ready

The idea for this script came about over a pint with Andy Hume back in February. We were talking about how annoying it is that DOMContentLoaded only works for Mozilla and although IE has it's own proprietary 'Defer' method there's not a quick and easy and cross-browser way of checking…

Opera and NTLM Authentication

In the new Rentokil Office our proxy has changed to one that uses NTLM authentication. As a result we can’t use Opera (8.54) because it doesn’t yet support NTLM authentication (V9 Preview 2 has experimental NTLM support but it’s a bit sketchy). Fortunately for us a…

Apple Boot Camp software for XP installation

I'm a little late picking up on this one but if your haven't already heard, Apple have released some beta software called Boot Camp to smooth the way to run Windows XP on your Intel Based Mac. The process is a lot less hairy than the previous hacks and not…

Off to work for Multimap

I'll be leaving my current job at the end of April to go and work for Multimap. I'll be focusing more on front-end stuff there, which will leave me to re-kindle my love for PHP in my spare time ;-). Working at Rentokil has been a great experience and I…