Archive for August, 2007
Domain & Hosting
I had an email today from a good friend, asking for recommendations about setting up a personal domain name. I get asked this quite a lot, so I thought I’d Blog the answer for future. You know it makes sense. Right, if you’re simply after a domain name for your email – i.e. having a [...]
Moving and Shaking
Right. It gets technical now. It seems my problems at work where my laptop takes an age to sign-on is due to it making a copy of your profile onto our LAN. For “roaming” purposes. Therefore the more you have in your profile folder, the longer it takes. So I set about reducing this down. [...]
Wakoopa
Saw details of this yesterday. It’s a bit like a social networking site, but one where you exchange information about the software you run on your PC. Naturally, I’m giving it a try. After setting yourself up a profile, you have to download a small piece of software that monitors your program usage – nothing [...]
CSS vs tables
I’ve often been criticised for using tables in my website. I only really use them where I’ve found it necessary, but never-the-less, one table is often one too many for some. “Bad design”, etc, etc. Well, I’m working on a re-design of the Copy+ site and have been attempted to banish tables from the site [...]
An Even Literbox
For some time now I’ve been using a great JavaScript utility named Lightbox 2.0 . Basically, it displays photos on a web page, but in a very stylish way. You start with a thumbnail, click it, and it expands, the rest of the screen fades out, and with version 2.0, you can then scroll through multiple photos. [...]
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Danger, Geek at Work
Now my day-time job is not a particularly geeky one. It’s programming an 80′s Basic language on a text-based DOS system. Never-the-less I’ve realised I’m doing quite well at making it look otherwise. The picture (taken on my Sony Ericsson K800i phone) shows my Dell Latitude D620 laptop (in a dock) to the left, connected to an external display , keyboard and mouse . [...]
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