December 2008
Befriend A Geek - Give the gift of friendship this Christmas: http://befriendageek.com/
November 2008
Decided not to use Twitter any more. Future updates at my blog only. http://DJM.me/blog
A good designer will create exactly what you want. A great designer knows it doesn't matter what you want - only what your customers want.
Sometimes form builders require more effort than writing a form manually!
Easier way to test a site in multiple versions of IE: http://tinyurl.com/33oh6q
Installed Cygwin so I can have the command line of Linux with the application support of Windows!
PHP: "There's more than one way to do it, all of which are wrong." -Anon.
Gmail now has a Forgotten Attachment Detector option (in Labs) :-)
October 2008
I really should get round to replacing the photo of me that's on my web site!
Why describe shower gel as "mouthwatering"? I don't want to eat it!
Just done reviewing about 40 task managers. Decided Tudumo is the best for me. (http://www.tudumo.com/)
Finally found out how to exclude Twitter posts from Facebook Notes import so they're not all posted twice! (?cat=-183)
Today I turned off my email notification popup. It's much less stressful!
First C# .NET application completed! I can now Tar, GZip & SCP files to/from my server in a single click :-)
From a job application: "I studied in Poland informatics and I concern computers privately."
Looking for a [good] freelance or part-time web designer in/near Oxford... Anyone know anyone?
If you start a sentence by saying "It's a cliché BUT..." does that make it more or less of a cliché?
In case I don't see you: good afternoon, good evening and good night.
Catch 22: I can't close a crashed app because Task Manager can't load because there's not enough memory available!
September 2008
A slight drizzle of rain and suddenly it takes an extra half hour to get to work!!
Thinking about getting a new bike. Shame it's so far to work these days.
Get your Vista control panel icons back: http://tinyurl.com/5mjjyo
If you go to Frankie & Benny's, be sure to get a Giant Cookie Sandwich! http://tinyurl.com/giantcookie
Stop yourself wasting so much time on certain web sites: http://tinyurl.com/4527da
Trying out Tudumo (to do list manager) - seems really good so far - http://www.tudumo.com/
♪ But there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake...
Sitting in front of the computer looking at about:blank for 5 minutes now, because I don't know what to do - it's just a habit to sit here.
Rainbow Innuendo Episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0XcxrWc7M
Interesting paper on Forgotten Password questions & their security (PDF): http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2008/proceedings/p13Rabkin.pdf
New bond theme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dcy4v/ @ 0:55:30. Rather disappointing really.
Google's new web browser: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
August 2008
I like working in Oxford - I no longer have to make a special effort to go shopping!
Here's some simple logic for you... If you put two seats facing each other, people will put their feet up. A sign saying not to won't change that fact!
Mum just txt me from downstairs to tell me the dog wanted a biscuit. It would have taken less time to feed her herself!!
Temporarily bored of programming & looking for some other way to occupy my time...
It always amazes me how there's at least 5 seats & plenty of aisle space, yet 10 people stand in the 2 metres at the front of the bus.
It's Matt Fincham's fault! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/galleries/3655/1/
It's always a little worrying when you refactor code and get it right first time - you wonder if you actually pressed Save!
Mozilla are developing a plugin for IE so that we can start using the features MS won't implement! http://tinyurl.com/64wbje
Cool, you're no longer limited to skipping 5 or 15 mins on Radio 1 Listen Again. Probably old news, but I haven't used it in ages.
Modified Twitter Tools to have slightly nicer formatting of the Twitter Digests on my blog.
Every time I eat a Yorkie, I remember when you used to get 6 bits that spelled the word "Yorkie" and I feel cheated!
Why do Word 2007 and Word 2003 have to fight over who owns .doc files?!
Trying to work out where unit tests best fit in my Subversion tree...
Listening to all the old Chris Moyles parodies :) http://tinyurl.com/5egare
Weekend! Going to Abingdon tonight. No idea what we're doing yet tho.
Trying out SugarSync to keep my computers in sync http://www.sugarsync.com/ (instead of Beyond Compare http://www.scootersoftware.com/)
Decided to try using Twitter again today. Mainly so I had somewhere to post the song lyrics I had in my head earlier.
"Life may be scary, but it's only temporary" http://www.avenueqthemusical.co.uk/
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March 2008
Watching the replay of the first F1 race of the season. Managed to go the whole day without hearing the result :).
Tried to go to Sainsburys. There's two fire engines and lots of people in the car park!
February 2008
We have Terminal Server at work; it tells me to run Windows Update, but then insists on rebooting afterwards, even when people are using it!
If I hadn't hesitated before crossing the tucan crossing on my way home, I'd probably have been hit by the car that ran the red light!
Listening to the Avenue Q soundtrack again. (If you haven't seen it you should do so)
Wasn't too bad cycling - leg's eased up a bit. It's still going to annoy me all day though!
Woke up with leg cramp at 5am :-( Hopefully it'll ease before I have to cycle to work in an hour...
Been trying to figure out the best WordPress comment spam blocking method(s). Akismet's not bad but not perfect. Haven't got an answer yet.
Reminder to self: Look at this later http://opsol.btpodshow.com/
Blog ads are all set up now. I'm hoping to get it live before next week; or I may have to put being a geek on hold & socialise a bit!
AdSense seems to be running slow and losing (or at least not showing) half my ad edits!
It's funny how yesterday (at home) I found 9 things to Twitter about but at work today I thought of nothing. Not one. Happy Monday every1!
I'm actually looking forward to having my new web site up and running so I can start blogging properly again
Testing Twitter from BLT using nothing fancy, just the Linux command line!
I think I preferred the old way Google AdSense worked, when you could customise the ads in the code http://tinyurl.com/yvq9br
I always hate going to Tesco. But once I drag myself out of the flat and get on my bike suddenly I realise I don't actually mind it!
OK that didn't exactly go to plan... so now I've got my Latest Twitter Updates box working properly I'll go do the washing up!
Just got up - tempted to work on my blog some more, but I haven't done the washing up in a few days so really should start there!
Think I've finished hacking Twitter Tools (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress) now so I'm going to bed!
Decided to install TwitBin as well, since it shows history (although is slower opening) http://www.twitbin.com/
Decided on TwittyTunes http://www.foxytunes.com/twittytunes/ for posting to Twitter
January 2008
Airport Express / iTunes Sharing / Bonjour vs Linksys Router: http://DJM.me/b532
31 Dec 2008
Soundtrack of 2008: http://DJM.me/b828
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