Muffin Research out of control
This just in via Mark [http://www.webmaxsolutions.co.uk/], photos of a advert for the supermarket Bloom involving giant muffins. News article is here. [http://www.salisburypost.com/area/284321140856522.php]…
d.Construct 2005
Registrations for d.Construct [http://www.clearleft.com/services/training/dconstruct.php] "a grass-roots Web 2.0 conference" are being taken now Sold out. Such luminaries as Andy Budd [http://www.andybudd.com], Simon Willison [http://simon.incutio.com/] and Stuart Langridge [http://www.kryogenix.org/] will be…
Dvorak's comment spam fix
As a regular listener to This Week In Tech [http://thisweekintech.com/] I heard on the latest show John C Dvorak's [http://www.dvorak.org/blog/] anti-spam provider Marc Perkel at ctyme.com [http://www.ctyme.com] has come up with a way to prevent comment spam on…
New Rentokil Initial site launched and featured on Stylegala
Today the new Rentokil Initial [http://www.rentokil-initial.com] web-site was launched. Well done to all [http://www.nefariousdesigns.co.uk] of [http://sourceunknowndesigns.co.uk] the [http://www.webmaxsolutions.co.uk/] people that played a part in putting this site together. (Quick plug for everyone's personal sites…
Table showcase site
Chris Heilmann [http://www.wait-till-i.com] has come up with the great idea of a CSS table showcase [https://web.archive.org/web/20051212153029/http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/] to show off different table designs. Being the enthusiastic chap I am, I've contributed my own table design entitled…
fscked up beyond all recognition
Strange things were afoot this evening when I switched on my laptop. Ubuntu [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/] 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…
Apple Bobbing
I have been watching with fascination the latest OSX86 developments. So far it seems like John C Dvorak's theory [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1845259,00.asp] is starting to come true. First talented Hackers have bypassed the restrictions that stop the intel version of OSX…
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 [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/], problem solved! Installation is text based, and I found that…