As I was relaxing on the sofa last night, I became aware of the general silence in the room. For the ordinary guy this might not mean anything, but when you are sharing the room with a 10 month old who’s just started walking, silence is usually a fair indication of a misdemeanor being committed. […]
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I had this problem the other day: two websites using identical code to collect RSS news feeds from identical sources. Website A loads its pages in about a second, whereas Website B takes up to 10 seconds. Go figure.
After I had thought about the problem for a while, and checked the codebase was identical, I […]
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I happen to love playing Football Manager 2007, and the CD usually lives in my MacBook Pro, unless I take it out at work to load something else and forget to put it back of course. So, a whole weekend without Football Manager - that sucks… not any more!
I have purchased the game so why […]
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Do you ever have those dumb moments? You waste a whole load of time trying to get a piece of code to work and performing the most complex de-bugging on it only to realise that you have overlooked the most basic and obvious thing?
Yesterday I was putting together an image upload script, which I wanted […]
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I installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro the day it came out. I pre-ordered, obviously. I have an external backup drive that I use with my MacBook, so that was Time Machine sorted there, but I also have a PowerMac G4 at home and I don’t have another decent size external USB hard disk. However, […]
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