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I only write occasionally here now, as you will see. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, which are all still accessible.

Latest Posts

  • New Design.

    The observant among you may notice that my site now has a new design (well, you will have if you’re not looking at this site through some kind of blog feed reader). I don’t really know whether it’s an improvement on the old one, I just did it for two reasons: (1) fixed-width layouts are…

  • Another useful Firefox extension…

    I’ve noticed recently quite a few screenshots of web pages which seem to be very long, i.e. they are of the web page in its entirety, not just the viewable area (I’m very bad at explaining things: basically, what I mean is, if you have to scroll down a web page to see it, then…

  • No Smoking

    Host: “The first rule of robot club is: you do not talk about robot club! The second rule of robot club is, you DO NOT talk ab– wait, I got that wrong. The second rule of robot club is, no smoking. Tim (to Mike): Why aren’t we allowed to smoke? Mike: shhhh! We’re not supposed…

  • House Update

    Just a quick update about the house situation I mentioned a little while back. We have finally exchanged contracts (yay!), and the completion date is set for next Friday (6th July). We’re aiming to move the weekend after that (14th July). So, watch this space! I just wanted to update, I’m rather excited…

  • Where are you all coming from?

    I’ve noticed a few random links popping up on my referalls list recently. Some of them come from forums on .edu websites. What gives? What’s going on all of a sudden on .edu websites which makes people want to link here? Particularly strange is the fact that most of them aren’t accessible from the outside…

  • The Weekend

    So… it’s time for another “The Weekend” post! On Friday evening, I went round to Wivenhoe to help Alex clear up the house before moving out, and also to have some fish & chips. We got them from Henleys because we didn’t have time to go down to Papa’s… I have to say, despite Henley’s…

  • Site Hacked

    There’s been an exploit going round recently (well, actually, for quite a while) which involves websites running cPanel (I think). A couple of weeks ago, someone managed to hack into this site and append some <SCRIPT> tags to the bottom of each index.php, the purpose of which was to download a virus to the unsuspecting…

  • Facebook Uploader

    Ok, I know I’ve been going on about this a lot recently, but I’ve finally released version 1.0 of the Facebook Uploader. You can download it from the project page on Google Code. The features are: Browse photos on your computer and upload them to one of your Facebook albums Create albums on Facebook Rotate…

  • The Weekend, Beethoven… and Pendulum.

    Just a quick update about what happened over the weekend… on Friday evening, Foz came up to stay! 🙂 We didn’t do much, apart from watch the first DVD of “An Evening with Kevin Smith”. It was absolutely hilarious, Kevin Smith is a very funny guy! On Saturday, Philippa and I went over to my…

  • Search Engines

    Matthew made a blog post the other day about search engines: in an article, Google came out with one of the worst privacy policies of any internet company. Matthew wanted to try out some various different search engines… read the blog post for more info! Anyway, I’m a fan of the Google search engine in…