Technology
Facebook goes loud
I deleted my account from facebook a couple of weeks ago. I explored it enough to understand it’s addictiveness and how and why people use it, and also because I have a few social network type site ideas gestating but in the end it just got on my nerves so I vanished myself.
Then today I [...]
Project Management
I’m not very good at it. It’s got to be said. There are things I can do well, like finding elegant simple solutions to difficult technical problems. Black and White stuff I suppose. But managing projects is a huge grey area. Goalposts move, priorities shift around and it’s hard to keep focused on the goal. [...]
Macs. OK, they’re good
This post isn’t going to mean much if you’re not a developer - just a quick warning before I start.
So this past week I’ve been struggling to get my PC to serve up a website properly. It’s a pretty complex site, with a 50MB MySQL database,PHP & Apache and the bloody PC just wouldn’t do [...]
Focusing on time
I’ve been all over the shop recently. Unfocused and unproductive. Seeing as I’ve got a lot of new work starting this week and I really can’t afford to screw things up as I have been doing lately, I needed something new.
So I went and found some good, free time-tracking software and starting using it. It’s [...]
The coolest technology I’ve seen for a while
I heard about slingmedia a few months back and to be honest it sounded a bit too good to be true. Basically, here’s what it does. You get this little box and connect one end to your broadband connection and into the other end you feed in a television signal from a source like a [...]
Facebook. The verdict.
Facebook. It’s a phenomenon. I’ve been holding back from writing a post on it, waiting to get an opinion from Sarah. Sarah has a computer, uses Skype, shops on the web but has a very unusual attitude to the Internet world. Usually we are polarised into 2 groups - the techie, early adopters and technophobes [...]
Flash is dead. long live flash.
After an 6 or 7 years of being a specialised flash developer I came to the sudden, certain conclusion last night that flash is dead. It will never take over the world. It’s too hard to program really cool, useful applications in it. The recent chatter on my own personalblogosphere (mainly the boy dark0, pixelBox [...]
boff
well. the chamonix-valley site has to undergo some emergency repair. er… so that’s what’s happened to that. In other news…. A certain girl’s group’s combined weight is apparently significantly less than a normal person’s big toe. Feed ‘em up I say. Make em put on a stone and say:
“Oi don’t understaaaaand it. I were doing [...]
and if you don’t like flickr?
maybe because it’s been bought by yahoo and requires a yahoo login to use, there’s alway picssa.
you can view our most recesnt photos on this one, but they are only the cream de la crop and won’t really get going for a while.
http://picasaweb.google.com/listingslab
They will, however, all be in high res and all be subject to [...]
Les Houches wakes up to summer
So today I went to buy a packet of cigarettes in Les Houches. I know I shouldn’t smoke, but I still do it. Ridiculous I know, but I had my camera and I thought it would be a chance to make a small little flickr slideshow set to test out the new flickr features….
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We’ve launched [...]
