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Blood Bowl games on the way
Part of my life as a computer gamer involved running a site dedicated to the game Chaos League for a year or two, chaosleague|players (still running but not updated). Part of my much younger life w...
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Loving Rails
I'm really getting into Ruby and Rails now - I don't think I've touched a PHP script for over a week now (and this for someone who's been writing PHP apps for six years!). Obviously my job is as...
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One big laptop!
I just got an email from Dell announcing their new XPS range of computers, including the XPS M2010, a 20.1" widescreen 'laptop'. They're fortunately not (as far as I can see) trying to suggest you ...
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Web Optimisation at NTI
The past few weeks our office (all three of us hehe) have been going along to a course at North East NTI at Teesside University on Web Optimisation. The course finished yesterday and it was actuall...
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At last, Ruby auto-completion!
Komodo, an IDE I looked at a couple of years ago for PHP before settling on Zend Studio, recently hit version 3.5 and introduced support for Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I'm checking out the 21-day t...
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Akismet still going strong
Back in March I posted about comment spam on this blog and installed Akismet to try and cut it out. I'm pleased to say it's still going strong. Over the past couple of days alone it's caught 253...
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Knew it was too good to last
After years of having a couple of stable, reliable Windows XP installs (over two computers), my computer's reset itself after Media Player 10 having frozen a couple of times recently. I'm hoping...
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Stop the beeping
Via Vitamin, I just read a very good blog post by Matt Mullenweg about the beeping in his house. He came back from a trip to find an irritating beep every minute or so, but didn't fix it for days. ...
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Sony not so out of touch?
Or at least one small part of Sony anyway. Much has been made recently of Sony's increasingly apparent loss of understanding of their target market over the Playstation 3, with rumours of stuff lik...
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Politics made CSSexy?
On my daily browsing of the CSS galleries today, I clicked on a thumbnail for a site that looked like it had a nice, clean layout, not looking at the name of the site. As the page loaded, it tur...