Category Archives: Uncategorized

The category for when I’m too bloody lazy to categorize.

Mandelson on Today

Evan Davis questions Peter Mandelson. ED    …the Child Poverty Ligislation is simply going to ensrine the target, which we already have, to eradicate child poverty by 2020 while you’re missing the target to halve child poverty by 2010.  Can you … Continue reading

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HTC Magic (aka Google G2) accelerometer not working

So I got my new G2 a couple of months ago and haven’t put it down that much since.  Well, last night I installed *something* (game/app) that stopped the accelerometer working.  I was close to tears.  Not really.  But I … Continue reading

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Outraged of somewhere…

Am simply outraged that some clever bugger decided to launch an iPhone app that talls you the name of sushi dishes, and they decided to call it sushiguru.  Had they never heard of Google before naming their product? Ponders: are … Continue reading

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Haircut

Had a hair cut the other day.  It’s not an occasion that happens very often in my life; I have little of it left, though my wife did persuade me to grow it a little as by usual home-done buzz-cut … Continue reading

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Excel and Dynamic Arrays

Aargh.  Came across an old problem with a spreadsheet today; trying to create and then write values to a dynamic array in VBA. The position is that I’m trying to write email addresses to a file for a bulk mailing; … Continue reading

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Thickbox and prototype

Since my websites have evolved into 2.0 territory I wanted a nice popup css/js box for displaying things in and completing forms etc.  Unfortunately, most of my ajax driven sites were (and continue) to be based on the excellent prototype … Continue reading

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Failed some more.

It never ceases to amaze me at just how crap I can be at writing.  Honestly.  My last post was March 4th… It’s a new year, and although I spent the best part of the first week of it off … Continue reading

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This is a test

Of just how damned lazy I can be. Microsoft have this new toy: Windoze Live Writer, which can log into and post blog entries on my own blog. Why oh why do I need this, when the other way to … Continue reading

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Life Minutes

I was once in a meeting with my first boss out of university when someone came into the office and asked him a banal question.  I will never forget the way he rolled his eyes and let out a big … Continue reading

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w00t! First post…

After being a failed blogger many times (I’m just not disciplined enough to keep up a blog as an ongoing project), I thought that I’d install one of my own to procrastinate further in my own space. Yay. Well, anyhow, … Continue reading

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