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The Writing on the Wall

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Like a child with a new toy…

Oh look, I can put an isometric view of my flat in here. What ever next? And the above is an embedded video form my YouTube account… I’m sure this is hardly revolutionary if you’ve done some blogging in the last five minutes, but the last time I had a go you had to hack the “embed” code into the HTML. This was great fun when attempting it on a Chinese computer with all the dialogue in foreign speak. What […]

Here’s a picture representing my feelings

Setting up Joomla and Windows Live Writer

Free yourself from the irritation of having to type articles in Joomla’s back end administration: Download the API plugin to enable you to connect and install in Joomla: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-production/blog/3831 Install and enable it in Joomla admin. Make sure use web services in global settings is enabled. Fire up live writer, walk through the usual login stuff entering: http://yourwebsite.com Here’s the difficult-to-remember-bit: Select Movable Type API as the blog type. for the domain add: http://yourdomain.com/xmlrpc/index.php All done! More details are here: […]

Brighton Rocks

We went to Brighton last summer. The first shock was that it was available in colour. The second was that it rocked.

40 Things

I was 40 and so were lots of other things too…

Dating Revolutionised!

Dragon’s Dens pitch idea #324a As you are aware 50% of marriages end in divorce.* A huge market potential exists in this developing market and continues to grow daily.

Types of Photography

Do you take photos of weird stuff? What does it all mean? Maybe there’s some hidden meaning to the contents of your photographs…

Using Windows? Then piss off..

I was looking for some information about Final Cut Pro today and I encountered the above…

Variable Friction Mouse

We’ve had velocity sensitive mice for years, the principle is simple – the faster you move your hand the faster the pointer accelerates, giving the faux virtual world of the computer a real world feel…

Media Fabrication

I still fabricate DVD’s occasionally. I know that’s very Web 0.5, but they do have their uses. You can give them to you Mum for a start in the knowledge that she has a DVD player already. Additionally, you can have animated menus and other fun stuff. Oh yeah, and you don’t have to compress your pictures into dust to get them to fit down a telephone line that was originally designed as a low quality speech medium. I discovered […]

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