A number of people have been solving Rubik’s cubes at work recently, and although there are numerous guides out there I can’t seem to find one that matches my approach for every step. Intro: Terminology A Rubik’s cube is made up of a number of different pieces, or cubies. There are 3 types: a corner […]
Read MoreMy Oblivion DVD came with a digital download copy from UltraViolet. I headed over to the UltraViolet Web site to download it. My experience went something like this: The site looks like the result of a “my first ASP.NET Web page” tutorial. I entered the code into the site and was redirected to Flixster. One of the […]
Read MoreImagine that you own a store in the high street. Now, for people to find your store, they can’t just look it up, or walk down the street or anything. They have to rely on some guy (an “informer”) who stands outside their house and says, “The Widget Shop? Yes, it’s on the high street.” […]
Read MoreOkay, I’ll admit it. I’m pretty terrible at getting up in the morning. (Actually, it’s probably that I’m terrible at going to bed in the evening, but that’s semantics.) I knew that I was totally unable to wake up on a morning, so I’d set my radio alarm for an hour before I needed to […]
Read MoreI subscribe to a number of third-party calendars in my own Google Calendar, one of which being my Facebook events. However, there are a couple of issues to work around to get everything working perfectly. If a friend has marked an event as “private”, Google Calendar only shows free/busy information because the iCal event has […]
Read MoreI have a fair amount of music in my library, and because I’m a massive nerd I like to keep it in some sort of order. (My pre-iTunes library has some 20,000 tracks, half of which are utter garbage. I’m slowly moving over the good stuff.) All of my tracks are managed in my iTunes […]
Read MoreHere’s the scenario: you use Apache Ant for some of your automated build process, but you also have some tools in Phing. You run both ant and phing from your repository root. Because you use Ant most, the Ant targets are in build.xml, and Phing has to use phing.xml. Sure, you can run phing -f […]
Read MoreYesterday was Crooked Ways festival at Pontefract racecourse — and what a great festival it was! Plenty of music, plenty of beer, and plenty of sun! It’s the first time they’ve held the festival, but Ponte racecourse was a great venue, and it certainly sounds like it’ll be on again next year — so let’s […]
Read MoreMotivated by a number of reasons, I’ve begun to move everything from my old VPS to what has been my development server until recently. It’s been a complete digital spring-clean of all the old sites I used to maintain and hopefully the result should be an improvement. Here’s a list of the main changes: Good […]
Read MoreJust recovered, so thought I’d post some ramblings for this year. Various high points were: Colin; gin jam; Jacob and Alf shopping for nothing but sweets; the wind and its army of shopping bags; back on form with brie and crackers; staying at the main stage missing plenty of good bands; acting like we were […]
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