I do enjoy poking through the books I’ve read each year, its a good indicator of what sort of year it has been. Thanks for the magic power of LibraryThing, it’s easy to find them all too. So in reverse order, and with the odd note *d… A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect [...]
Whilst I was down in London a few weeks ago, I drunkenly set about re-skinning coldclimate. Since I moved to WordPress a few years ago I’d used the Ocadia theme, and very nice it was too. However, lots of people use it, so it was time to make something of my own. I’m no designer. [...]
I’m sitting this evening, watching TV, something I normally pour scorn on. Call me elitist, called me a snob, call me posh (if your vocabulary only gets that far) but most of the stuff on TV is just drivel. Thats why I’m watching a stack load of divx files, not whatever it being beamed into [...]
Last night I finally got my Ubuntu 9.1 box up and running properly. It talks to my wireless, it talks to my telly, it connects to my NAS box and it even has blue teeth! How? I plugged in all of my peripherals, and reinstalled from the latest download. I’d twatted about trying to get [...]
I love computers. I really seriously love technology. I have no other tangable skill set (other than talking and maybe a few other things). I love making file systems work, getting databases to do backflips, to root my way through a problem and determine that it’s actual X not Y that is causing problem. However, [...]
Two things I’ve discovered this evening… 1) The best milkshake includes no milk. It’s expensive organic vanilla icecream you left out overnight (yeah yeah ignore the fact that this is made with milk), and something called Rice Dream, which might be a poor milk substitue most of the time, but is very very tasty. 2)The [...]
if you happen to be on the coldclimate domain, ad things look screwy, it’s not because somethings wrong, just that I’m slightly drunkenly trying to bolt together Blueprint CSS and the sandbox wordpress theme. Stay calm! Carry on! If it fails it’s back to the original theme! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : [...]
Flickr continues to blow my mind – it really does. This article about their code management and versioning actually blew me away. I know continuous integration can work (I imagine it can completely fail too unless your dev staff have their heads screwed on) I’ve done some really easy go-lives (of simple things) and some [...]