It’s been a while since I made a “The Weekend” post, so here we go! What have I been up to this weekend? Well, on Friday evening Philippa came round for dinner. I made a curry, it was actually rather nice! On Saturday, we met up in town. I went to Moss Brothers and I…

I’ve been messing around recently with Eclipse and SWT. Eclipse is an IDE for Java (well, mainly Java, I think) and SWT is a toolkit for Java GUIs, similar to Swing. The difference with SWT is that it hooks in to the operating system, meaning that your applications look like programs compiled for that operating…

Microsoft has released a preview of Internet Explorer 7. I don’t know about anyone else, but the functionality that it has seems to “borrow” rather a lot from the excellent Mozilla Firefox. I haven’t downloaded the beta version because I don’t want to install a beta version on my work PC, and I don’t have…

Kind of a random combination, but still. First Apache: some good news: version 2.2 has been released! You can read the Article on The Register and the Official What’s New List. One thing that looks really cool is the DBD Framework – it maintains connection pooling for a number of database servers, and seems to…

Firstly, I’d just like to follow-up my last post with one more random thing about emoticons (otherwise known as smileys): Dave Barry’s Emoticons. It’s an extract from one of his books. Some of them are incredibly random, and very funny. I quite like this one: :-D* Which apparently means, “Person laughing so hard that he…

This is a link that I’ve found before, and I think I e-mailed off to a couple of people, but haven’t got around to posting up here. Until today. So, here you go: “A Wink is as Good as a Nod“. It’s a short piece about smileys, and about how some earlier writers might have…

Ok, firstly, I want you to imagine (if you will) Darth Vader saying the title of this blog post: “The Power of the Command-Line”. Good, good (– The Emperor). I suppose I’d better go and explain that now… the title, that is, not Darth Vader. I just thought it would be cool if Darth Vader…

Just thought I’d make a “The Weekend” post because I haven’t done in a while. So, what did I get up to? Not a whole lot is the answer to that! On Friday night, I went back home to Ipswich and stayed overnight with my parents. I watched an old episode of “Dad’s Army”, the…

I’ve done a new mix! It’s breaks, as per usual. DOWNLOAD (If you dare…) MP3, ~48.5MB, 53 mins (right-click and select Save As…) TRACKLIST 01. D-Ranged – A Love Song 02. Screwface – Phat Bass 03. Entity – G-Breaks 04. Jade – Made of Steel 05. Bill Vega & New Decade – Fear of Darkness…

Would anyone find e-mail subscription to this blog a useful feature? The reason is, I found a subscription plugin the other day, and was toying with installing it. I would install it if I thought people would find it useful, but on reflection I think it’s perhaps a little unnecessary! So, this is your chance:…