I read in the paper yesterday that a serious powercut hit Italy the day before. Granted, it was on Sunday that the powercut happened but I was shocked that such a major event escaped under my radar until Monday evening. UserFriendly is the first mention I’ve seen of it online, but now that I’m looking [...]
29
2003
Layout-o-matic - css generator
Nice tool for generating the base code for a table free layout. Yumm!
29
2003
gaim for some yahoo?
Argh! Silly play on words in the title, sorry! hehe.
The new version of gaim, available through apt-rpm and other sources logs in to Yahoo. The gaim website says there may trouble ahead but it works right now at least.
29
2003
How to increase your hits
So anyways, the moral of this story is if you want to get hits, pick a fight with someone and mention Macs a lot.
29
2003
Matrix Revolutions Trailer
Just watched the trailer for the latest Matrix movie and I’m impressed! Then again, I was probably impressed by the previous trailer, but the film was a disappointment. I still can’t wait for November though! Go download the trailer now! (Warning! 48MB file!)
I just noticed - The Matrix must be partly set in Chicago - [...]
28
2003
Blackpool Factories In Ruin
I went up to Blackpool on Saturday afternoon to photograph the textile factory and Sunbeam. Even 24 hours later smoke still rose from the fire-gutted buildings and rubble. The Evening Echo had a stark picture of the blazing building on it’s Friday edition. It’s lucky nobody was injured in the blaze. A creche on the [...]
28
2003
Modem upgrade
For ages I’ve had to use an internal winmodem (using the closed-source hcf drivers available online), but Owen gave me a USR external modem yesterday which I just replaced my old modem with. On booting Linux, Kudzu recognised that the internal modem was removed and configured the new external modem!
The only problem I had with [...]
27
2003
Headlines from 2011
These headlines from the future make for good reading. hehe.
President Howard Dean vowed to continue pursuing the missing terrorists, but Richard Perl, Donald Rumsfeld et al. are still at large, being hidden by members of anti-Government militias in remote regions of the mountain states. The cabal took flight following the shocking 2009 discovery that “George [...]
26
2003
The latest works - optical illusions
Don’t look at this page if you tend to get migrane as some of the images here will probably set off a major headache if you look at them too long! These optical illusions look great, and I wonder why all those demo coders spent so long doing mandelbrots and full-screen anims. They could have [...]