Archive for August 2004
Towering Darkness (pt 3) 30 Aug 2004
If you haven’t already, you may wish to read part 1 or part 2 of this story before reading on. “No sign of him?” asked Fiden. “He’s gone deep into the forest, impossible to track him.” “Leave him, I’m sure he’ll head home, or run into a bandit. So much for your brave defender, my [...]
My Weekend, so far 30 Aug 2004
Apologies for my complete absence for a few days, with a bank holiday and a week off looming I decided to draw up a to-do list and get on with it. First up I downloaded a copy of MediaWiki and, now that I have apache and what-not installed on my main machine rather than just [...]
Flying High 27 Aug 2004
With Scaled Composites and the recently renamed GoldenPalace.com Space Program powered by the da Vinci project grabbing all the headlines in the ongoing ANSARI X PRIZE (it always seems to be in capitals on their site), which looks set to reach it’s climax later this year, it’s easy to forget that there are in fact [...]
Helping Mother Nature 26 Aug 2004
I realised today that my car has become part of the cycle of nature. Plants use a variety of ways to spread seeds; they grow fruits to encourage animals to eat them and spread the seeds through their excrement, or make seeds that get caught in fir and feathers, they use wind, water and numerous [...]
Essential New Words for the Workplace Environment 25 Aug 2004
I got this from somewhere recently, can’t remember exactly where, but I thought I’d share it with you anyhow. How many do you recognise? Testiculating: ~ Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. (I know people who’d get an honours degree in this, and not necessarily just people at work) Blamestorming: ~ Sitting around in [...]
Safe Browsing 24 Aug 2004
Having written an article on the alternatives to IE I guess it makes sense for me to promote Browse Happy which is “brought to you by The Web Standards Project” another project I totally support and agree with. (Hint: Stick with the text links when you’re visiting, the images of the people kept producing 404 [...]
Towering Darkness (pt 2) 22 Aug 2004
If you haven’t already, you may wish to read part 1 of this story before reading on. The princess was accompanied by five sour-faced Royal Guards, all heavily armed and clad in their distinctive black tunics. They did little and said even less, but they had the look of fighting men — the steel-eyed stare [...]
Server Move 22 Aug 2004
Apologies if anyone has been having problems accessing the site since Wednesday, or has noticed the latest post either changing completely or showing different dates, my host has been moving servers and, due to me not keeping my details up-to-date, I was completely unaware of what was going on. I’m assured the new server is [...]
The Chronicles of Narnia 18 Aug 2004
I’ve just read (offline for a change) something that I didn’t know, so you guys might not either. Apparently, Disney is filming The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. They’re starting with perhaps the best known, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but plan to film all seven (I didn’t even know there [...]
MS Has Them Quaking 16 Aug 2004
Over at the wonderful slashdot (/.) I spotted a great post about the alleged fear the film industry has of Microsoft. Does anyone else find the thought of incredibly large multi-national entities that thrive on vertical integration and ruthless ethics being afraid of something (even if it is Microsoft) causes a little chuckle? More to [...]