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March 30th 2007

I love the idea of  Bathroom Bookshelf partyly because it introduced me to this.  Animated folk-poptasticness. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools

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beatboxing with a flute

March 29th 2007

Yes, and it’s the Inspector Gadget theme tune too, with a bit of Bevely Hills Cop about it.  Oh yes. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Forget the deli, find a German Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac The strange [...]

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Radio Silence

March 28th 2007

Broken home intenet may result in patchy transmissions on coldclimate.co.uk for a while.  Too busy to fix it at present. Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog

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Firefly and Serenity

March 21st 2007

When Firefly was dropped form TV, it was an odd time in TV history.  If it has stayed on TV, it would have been another OK tv series.  By cancelling it, it was catapulted it into history as a great TV series.  Couple it with Serenity film, and you have a total winning package. It’s [...]

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Amazing interactive map

March 21st 2007

This is really really interesting Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools Make your RSS feeds trackable

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Robert Mugabe is a fucking nutter

March 16th 2007

Yes, it’s so obvious I can’t make it any clearer, the man is a raving psychopath.  Total nut job.  And ugly too.  Can somebody not shoot him and get it over with please before he totally distroys the country.  Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog

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Dig deep enough…

March 15th 2007

…and my house is actually oposite New Zealand, not Australia. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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Design insights on large sites

March 13th 2007

This interview with ESPN’s webmaster made for very interesting reading.  The impact a new (clean) deisgn had on everything from bandwidth (massively reduced) to users experiences was affected. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix [...]

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Who feeds me? RSS isn’t friendly!

March 11th 2007

I’ve seen a huge increase in the amount of traffic which gets identified as “rss feeder” rather than Ie, firefox etc.  Lovely as it is to be read, I wonder, who are you?  Why not leave me a comment and say hi? Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess [...]

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Kill it, cook it, eat it II

March 8th 2007

This is truely one of the most amazing pieces of TV I have watched in years. It’s very carefully not been done to be dramatic, because it could have so easily been meaty big brother, and all along the way they have tried to explain what people are seeing. For example, when the animal is [...]

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Kill it, cook it, eat it

March 8th 2007

Finally somebody has made a fabulous piece of TV.  Long have I ranted on about people being ignorent and proud of it.  BBC has a programme on at the moment called Kill It, Cook It, Eat It which follows beast from field to plate.  The public are invited to watch the whole process, and to [...]

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Sofrtware to make you a souless anroid

March 6th 2007

I like faces.  They are interesting.  Why would you want software for making them seemless? Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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Coffee?

March 6th 2007

What a good idea this is Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = ….

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Stuck at werk

March 5th 2007

and its getting late and I’m fucked off.  Fucking werk. Possibly Related Posts: Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser Security gone made

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Hardware

March 3rd 2007

Geeks, you need this site in your life. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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