Tag: internet
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My April Fools
I've always had a thing for big, overcomplicated April Fools' gags. Traditionally, we'd always play pranks on Penbryn Halls at the University, but it's not so easy these days to gain access to halls of residence, now that they've installed door locks that don't open by themselves when you so much as breathe hard on …
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Google's April Fool...
...seems to be to not text me me Google Calendar alerts this morning. So I didn't get reminded to put the bins out, which I've kind-of come to rely on. Whoops!
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Best Bug Ever
On behalf of a client of a client of SmartData, I was responsible this weekend for moving a website over from one server to another. It's a monolithic old custom-written content management system, in Perl, which over the last four or five years has been passed from developer to developer and has begun to look …
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A Quick Play With HTML5
I've been playing with HTML 5 a little this morning. It's really quite fabulous: a lot of smart design decisions have been made and it looks like - given a good few years to get things up to scratch even after the specification has been finalised - it'll really provide a lot of useful tools …
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LiveJournal For Google Reader v1.3 Update
Earlier this year, I released my LiveJournal Atom Feed Digest Authentication Proxy (also known as LiveJournal For Google Reader Users). This tool allows Google Reader users to subscribe to "friends only" posts in LiveJournal weblogs, which normally isn't possible because Google Reader doesn't support the necessary authentication methods.
Thanks to the hundreds of users that use … -
Google Reader For LiveJournal Users
There's a new version out: click here!
My previous post reminded me that I'd never gotten around to writing something I'd promised a few of you already: that is, a guide to using Google Reader and LiveJournal together effectively (Google Reader doesn't support digest authentication, which means that it's not possible to use Google Reader … -
Abnib Events
In order to reduce the amount of time my blog spends being used to organise events like Black Red Dwarf Adder Nights and whatnot, I've launched Abnib Events, which aims to centralise the organisation of such get-togethers. You'll also find that the next upcoming event appears on the Abnib front page, in the upper-right - …
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40 Days On Facebook
I've been playing with Facebook for the last 40 days or so, to see if it's any good. Here's some of the things I've observed that I like (and don't like) about it, followed by my conclusions:
Observations
In no particular order.
Nice. It's a good platform for keeping up-to-date with your friends for … -
Abnib Breaks Stuff, Fixes Stuff, Keeps Ticking
As you might have seen, the new version of abnib went live this afternoon. Just so I don't keep getting the same comments over and over:
Right now, it's a little fixated on the PST time zone. I'm not sure why this is, but I'll fix this soon.
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Dan’s Latest Vapourware
Wanna see what I've been hacking recently?
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Top Ten Worst Domain Names
Do you think that the Italian power company, PowerGen, were actually thinking of how else their domain name could be read when they registered powergenitalia.com? And there's at least nine more equally badly-chosen domain names.
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You Can Get Anything On The Internet
I frequently find myself impressed with some of the more unusual things it's possible to obtain on the internet. I was browsing the binaries newsgroups when I came across this gem of a self-help film:
A few interesting things about this film:
It's called Meeting Women Online. I suppose that's a valid topic for a … -
Fun And Games With Google Suggest
Ah, the fun that's to be had with Google Suggest:
Some interesting facts we've learned:
"Gay people are gay" results in more hits than "Microsoft is bad".
The only things people seem to say about Wikipedia is that it's slow and that it's down.
The only people who don't distrust or hate eBay … -
Abnib, Version 3.0
Abnib Version 1.0 was a funny little beast. It was built to accomodate for about half a dozen bloggers, but ended up with about nine or ten. It worked, though, and the principle of aggregating the blog entries of our friends and our friends' friends took off. Abnib 1.0 had a few major flaws: firstly, …
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/join #TheMatrix
Here's a geeky (well, geekier) retelling of The Matrix.