April 25, 2008 • 12:15 pm
Hey, whenever you find a clever program or website or some piece of technology (sat navs, iPhone, whatever), always remember that the computer is not clever. The computer is a dumb machine. It has the same amount of intelligence as a rock, it’s just a bunch of switches. Literally. That is all a computer is, [...]
March 12, 2008 • 11:22 pm
You know, I think I might be switching allegiances. I’m getting sick to death of Firefox’s unpolished stupidness, I might just drop it completely and move over to Safari. I’ve already dumped Thunderbird because it couldn’t wrap text properly, and I’m just about ready to do the same to Firefox. You know it’s bad when [...]
February 25, 2008 • 8:24 am
My colleague’s computer is currently displaying this message:
Keyboard error or no keyboard present
Underneath it reads:
Press F1 to continue or DEL to enter SETUP
January 27, 2008 • 10:53 pm
TextMate is a text editor for the Mac OS. Regular Mac users won’t generally find it useful, but if you are at all involved in writing computer code — HTML, PHP, javascript, whatever — you will instantly and completely fall in love with TextMate.
I’m not even using my trademark hyperbole here.
TextMate is just a beautiful [...]
January 22, 2008 • 6:35 pm
I am excited beyond words about HTML 5. It’s all about the HTML 5.
October 18, 2007 • 10:19 pm
Here I use the word ‘programming’ loosely. I am a hobbyist web developer, who is pretty good at XHTML and CSS (or I was the last time I checked, which hasn’t been for a while) and not too bad at PHP with MySQL. I have to look up the odd, rarely ever used, obscure MySQL [...]
September 17, 2007 • 8:42 am
Why is that everything to do with Apple just brings me to my knees and makes me want to weep. I just saw the new iPod touch, and I want one so much I might just spend the day crying.
It’s like the new Apple phone but without the crappy phone part (I want my phone [...]
March 15, 2007 • 11:38 am
MS Paint — sometimes I just want to make a crappy drawing with a crappy image editor. MS Paint is to Photoshop what Notepad is to Word.
XP’s photo viewing software. Under XP you can open one image file and then view all the images in the same folder with the next and previous buttons. You [...]
February 23, 2007 • 1:42 pm
Or maybe be sick. Or maybe it’s enough to make you cry sick.
Look at it. A trail of misery going all the way back to the early Victorian times. And that’s just version 7!
OK, that’s enough rants about IE. I actually don’t hate it as much as I like to make out. And to be [...]