Muffin Research out of control
This just in via Mark, photos of a advert for the supermarket Bloom involving giant muffins. News article is here.…
d.Construct 2005
Registrations for d.Construct "a grass-roots Web 2.0 conference" are being taken now Sold out. Such luminaries as Andy Budd, Simon Willison and Stuart Langridge will be speaking about all things Web 2.0. There will also be a talk from Boing Boing's and EFF member Cory Doctorow on…
Dvorak's comment spam fix
As a regular listener to This Week In Tech I heard on the latest show John C Dvorak's anti-spam provider Marc Perkel at ctyme.com has come up with a way to prevent comment spam on any site running apache. I went over to John's site to get the low…
New Rentokil Initial site launched and featured on Stylegala
Today the new Rentokil Initial web-site was launched. Well done to all of the people that played a part in putting this site together. (Quick plug for everyone's personal sites there!) We have also been featured in Stylegala which is a great result. After Tim and I got the chance…
Table showcase site
Chris Heilmann has come up with the great idea of a CSS table showcase to show off different table designs. Being the enthusiastic chap I am, I've contributed my own table design entitled 'Grey suits you sir!' I'm pretty sure this site will be a useful resource as it…
fscked up beyond all recognition
Strange things were afoot this evening when I switched on my laptop. Ubuntu did the intermittant "HAL could not be initialized" error first of all. A quick reboot and everything seemed ok for a couple of minutes. The update indicator was red so I though I ought to do a…
Apple Bobbing
I have been watching with fascination the latest OSX86 developments. So far it seems like John C Dvorak's theory is starting to come true. First talented Hackers have bypassed the restrictions that stop the intel version of OSX running on anything but the developer MacIntels and there are plenty of…
Ubuntu Ubuntu they drink it in the congo
XP Pro started giving me grief on my laptop with a blue screen every time I booted it up, which seemed to relate to the wireless card. So to fix the problem I installed Ubuntu Linux, problem solved! Installation is text based, and I found that was the only thing…