January 2006
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Seamonkey
Get your sea monkey’s online now. Mozilla have released the first version of the new Mozilla suite; codenamed Seamonkey
features a state-of-the-art web browser and powerful email client, as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat client. For web developers, mozilla.org’s DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well. SeaMonkey 1.0 is one of...
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Living without wires
The start of this post was going to be all about the sudden interest into ‘mobile’ web and hardware. The availability of wireless products has made it easier for us to connect to the digital world, it has radically changed my world already.
At present I’m writing this from my iPaq while chilling in the bedroom and it suddenly struck me how much I now rely on a lack of wires!
I...
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Xbox Live Update
Yesterday Microsoft announced the first update to the 360 dashboard. According to Microsoft:
This free Xbox 360 update is great news! We’ve been listening to what the community has been telling us, so we’re happy to announce that this update will improve your gaming experience.
Here are some of the changes in this update:
* Improvements to the Xbox Guide.
* Option to...
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Grey
Hot on the heels of Billet comes Grey
It’s my second style, something with a difference, I’m afraid it is not fully complete and is only offered in a Beta state, but due to work load I have not got the time to finish it, feel free to try.
Enjoy!
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Life's Great when your full of
I really want to write snot but for the good of all others lets just say cold.
For the last few days I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather but I thought I would soldier on in the best way as I had quite a busy week end planned.
As most things in my life at present it was a very strong cycling based week end, the annual dinner of the Sudbury Cycle Club and then the first real event of...
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An iBook it is
Well after much time staring at the Apple web site I have finally decided to make up my mind. I’ve taken the plung and ordered a new 12inch iBook. Now I’m sure I am opening myself to the “you should have got a PowerBook!” or even now a MacBookPro comments.
Well yes except for a few things, I could not buy a product called a MacBookPro and be taken seriously. Second, for...
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The call signs are set.
When Dave first mentioned about cycling from Lands End to John O’Groates I thought this would just be a flash in the pan idea, some thing that would be forgotten about in the build up to Christmas. I’m sure that was more hoping than thinking.
Well now a couple of weeks down the line and this is by far dream, it is really going to happen.
The date has been set; we leave Lands End on...
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A Cold Snap
At the week end I was standing in the garden tweeking my Marin wearing only just a t and thinking how good the weather was for January and how all the nah sayers had predicted a harsh winter.
If I could go back and feel my fingers now I would.
Yesterday the temperature on the way into work was -5c this morning it was slightly warmed at just under zero and the forecast is for more towards the...
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Disney/Pixar
This could be very interesting on the film front, let alone on the personal bank balance of Mr. Jobs.
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Core Bike Show
Yesterday afternoon was taken as a jolly. In other words work got the boot and I spent the time travelling to the Core Bike Show.
This event is a trade show for the major importers of all things cycling, so I had to take on the role of ‘Web Designer’ for LifecycleUK, despite the fact that Rob actually signed me up as office gimp! Matt (the only real employee of LifeCycle) was...
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Give me the power to search
Over the last few days I’ve slowly been growing more and more found of Google Desktop. I was messing about with the work web site last week and generating sitemaps and trying the Beta version of Google’s sitemap features when I thought I might as well give the Desktop a crack.
The installation was fine and set up a breeze, the biggest down fall was the indexing of my computer. The...
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My first 'bonk'
Because of the server outage I’ve not been able to get updated but I thought I better post this about last weekend, if only to remind me what went wrong and how to learn from your mistakes.
Anyway the post, last Sunday I experienced my first Bonk!
For those common with English slang this is not what you think, it is actually a symton of excercise or more precise a nasty experience due to...
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Server Outage
Well it looks like the server was borked for quite a while, hopefully sorted now
For reasons unknown my server was down for most of yesterday. It all looks to be up and running again and back to normal.
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WordPress
home grown themes
Morning After
Frost
K2 styles
K2 is the very popular theme from Michael Heilman, the creator of Kubrick (the default WordPress theme)
Billet - A simple square looking style with an aluminium look to it. Download
Grey - The second installment, not 100% working but as close as I can do right now. Download
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It's a billet
bil'let noun
a small bar of metal for further processing.
Or in this case my first K2 style. Billet - R1
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is that an ipod in your pocket?
Levi have taken the iPod craze and gone one further.
They have designed a pair of jeans with built in controls for the iPod. This is not the first time clothing has been done like this, I remember seeing a Burton (of snowboard fame) coat with a iPod control panel in the sleeve but a £250 price tag on the other!
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MacWorld - 10.1.06
I guess I better post the manitory post about MacWorld and the new products to hit the Apple store, it does seem only right.
So yesterday Steve took the stage and every one waited to see what shiny gadgets he would reveal; most people expected a Intel powered machine, more likely an iBook or a Mini. Rumours of Shuffle being updated or even dropped, new software in the form of iLife06 (that was...
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See through Raptor
Western Digital have launched the new version of the popular Raptor drive. However this time you can get a transparent version. Least now you can see those heads colliding.
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HD-DVD bolt on extra for Xbox
If you can’t decide which media to support; HD-DVD or Blu-Ray why not do the next best thing and just offer external drives.
At present the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD argument is a bit like the old VHS/Betamax problem. They are both good systems but in the end only one will survive commercially and at present no one knows which.
So to prevent an ‘egg on face’ situation the 360 was released...
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New Year / Fresh Idea
Well we have started the new year and as usual we all sit there and make those resolutions and try and better ourselves for the coming year. Of course we all do this with the best intensions and at the time we have nothing but positive energy for the task ahead. However as the weeks progress the dedication dwindles and the engery disappears until at the end the gym membership is cancelled and the...
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Happy Birthday Dan
You know your old when you wake up on a Thursday morning and realise it is your 30th birthday.
If you go by the national mean averages and other crap you will know that you are nearly half way through your existance on this planet.
However you look at Dan you know you are no longer a spring chicken, time to invest in a cloth cap and some nice carpet slippers.
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Hats off to Microsoft
Last night I had a few spare minutes so I was messing about with a Xbox360. You know how it is you keeping plugging stuff in trying to find out what would work and what device will eventually crash the machine.
Well, keyboard fine (really handy for setting up the console), digital camera working great, next storage devices; looking good but what about an iPod.
Plug in and to my surprise it...
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Happy New Year
It’s a bit blurry, my head is a bit cloudy, everything is so strange and the house is a mess, I guess that means it was a good night.
Hope you too had a enjoyable evening and New Year and that 2006 will bring you everything you want or desire.