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24 Feb 2008
at 8:21pm
First Choice Holidays Scam
Be ware of the small print when booking a holiday through First Choice Holidays, there are terms you are agreeing to outside of the document you're signing!
24 Feb 2008
at 8:27pm
Visiting our New Puppy
We went to visit our puppy today and the kids had a great time playing with eight 6-week old labrador puppies.
18 Jan 2008
at 6:40am
Book Review: The Explanation of Taekwondo Poomsae
I've just received a new book from the States about Kukki-Taekwondo (WTF-style) Poomsae and after giving it a quick once over thought I'd put my opinion on 'paper' (so to speak).
5 Feb 2008
at 10:38am
21st Century Communications - iChat AV on Leopard
I've recently started subcontracting some of my work to another PHP developer I trust. iChat AV on leopard is making the process so much smoother than it otherwise would have been...
18 Dec 2007
at 9:04pm
New site launched
After a horrible experience (and putting it off for months) I've finally launched my new site. It's not feature complete but it's a good base to build on.
30 Dec 2007
at 8:47pm
Installing XP on an SATA drive (200GB Maxtor DiamondMax on MSI KT6V/VIA 8237)
How to install Windows XP on a SATA drive. Apparently this is the only blog entry from my old site that was missed - so here it is again!
3 Jan 2008
at 3:04pm
Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence
For Christmas I got an excellent book about basically mining and predicting information. It has sections on how search engines work, bayes-based spam filtering and optimizing solutions (amongst other things).
18 Dec 2007
at 10:25pm
How I Bricked then Fixed an iPhone
It all started innocent enough, put the App Installer on a 1.0.2 iPhone so I could install extra software for my wife. Then came the endless reboots...
6 Mar 2008
at 9:35am
Sharing music, pictures and videos between a Mac and an Xbox 360/Playstation 3
After getting our new 20" iMac, we've completely dropped using Windows at home. With an upcoming party this weekend the question pops up "How will we access our music from the computer?". Nullriver to the rescue!
8 Apr 2008
at 1:47pm
Be careful choosing a domain name for your site
Be very careful how you choose your domain name. A friend at work forwarded this content and it shows some of the pitfalls of innocent sounding names.
15 Apr 2008
at 8:12pm
Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment
As a contractor it is always wise to stay on top of upcoming technologies, today's niche market may be tomorrow's big earner. This year I decided to learn Ruby on Rails, so I thought I'd write a post on why I think Rails is such as excellent development system.
11 Jun 2008
at 9:59am
A Video Every Teenage Girl Should Be Made To Watch
In 2006, a young girl named Dallas Jessup made a movie called <a href='http://www.justyellfire.com'>Just Yell Fire</a> with the support of her local community and her Philipino Street Fighting coach Chad Von Dette. This movie has been released free of charge on the internet and can either be downloaded as a normal PC/Mac playable movie or as a DVD image for burning to a DVD and showing on TVs in school.