Techie Turmoil

the kid’s gotta code . . . and he can’t defend himself against the man who says, ‘you’ve gotta pay me for my idea which you just had.

I’ve just set up blogging by email. It should check a special email address every hour and download the mail to post on my blog. How exciting! Yet more ways for me to write midless waffle on here

I’m fed up with our broadband connection. It took ages to get connected and has always been slow.

Yes its official! – Konqueror is the best web browser going.

Hmmm I’ve just realised how pants this template is. It has justified text – eeuuugh! Time I built a new one I think. Better do some work first tho……

If only M1cro$oft had used ogg… For once I actually feel sorry for M$! Although I despise them and their foul way of doing business, I think they actually tried to do the right thing here. I think they could have done better research however to avoid the situation. And if they had used the [...]

MP3 has been the standard compressed audio format for a long time. However it is inferior quality and a proprietary format. There are many other (and better) formats available, but the best and most flexible is OGG. OGG does video to. It is open source and can be included in any open source player. I [...]

I just made a new blog for Nai T which I think you will like. I built a custom template for WordPress from her design. I really enjoyed doing it and I learned a load of stuff about site layout. Maybe its time for me to get a new design for my blog as I [...]

I found this great addon for Firefox called ScribeFire. Its a plugin to help you quickly write posts on your blog whilst browsing. It appears as a little icon in your status bar so it stays out of your way when you don’t need it, but pops up at the bottom of the browser when [...]

Well at last I have started blogging. As I am known to most people as a techie, it seems odd that I wasn’t one of the first people to write a blog. But the reality is – I’m rubbish at writing. At least writing anything anyone else would want to read anyway! So I’m afraid [...]