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Canon IXUS 50/60
I've just been looking at compact digital cameras with a friend who's after one and I'm well impressed with the Canon IXUS 50/60 range. The picture quality looks good (on the screen of the camera a...
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Spending spree
For the past week or two I've been pondering on how best to handle all the photos I'll be taking on my road trip around Europe in May (note to self: references like this work better when you've men...
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Gateshead bigger than Newcastle?
I was checking out Flagr today, an AJAX site built around Google Maps that allows people to effectively stick pins on the map with descriptions of places of interest, so people can see where to vis...
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New editor for Rails
New to me that is, it's been around for years. More random browsing yesterday sent me in the direction of a handy blog post describing how best to set up jEdit for efficient use with Ruby and/or...
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Comment spam
Well, this blog has started getting more and more comment spam recently that I've had to moderate, so I finally got around to installing Akismet. Akismet is a service/plug-in for WordPress that is ...
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Optimus Mini Three in production
After mentioning the Optimus Mini Three in January, I then forgot to keep an eye on it for the final announcement that it would indeed be produced, but I was reminded today while looking at the pre...
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If it's in a computer, can it be real?
My brother got me to go to a talk/discussion session with Steve Grand (of Creatures fame) last night and it turned out to be very good. The talk was part of the AV Festival, taking place across ...
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Another beta book
Last year I bought the Pragmatic Programmer's book, "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson. The Pragmatic Programmers have the cool method of allowing the pu...
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More cool Flash done well
This is scary, some people are starting to use Flash sensibly after all these years! Browsing the newest additions on w3csites, I came across 9thwave New Media's new website. The site has valid ...
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Blog 2
I enjoy this blog-writing lark so much I started another one. Following my entry into the world of Ruby on Rails, I've got a pretty decent forum system up and running and as a test data set, I i...