2008

iPhone Configuration Utility for Web

Thanks to Tom I today found out that my iPhone does not support S/MIME encrypted emails. This is a...

“However, the most popular handset in the US for browsing is...”
— BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile...

Argh!!! 15,000 Improvements and they manage to break a...

Learning how Git works

Since switching to git I’ve found the lack of a library slightly annoying for a couple of...

Working on Palmtree v1.0.0

Having seen a few people using palmtree for their deployment I’ve decided to do a bit more...

Make Resourceful-ized form_for

One of the problems I’ve had recently is nested form partials in my Rails applications....

Updating the git repos in current dir

I’ve been using more and more git based TextMate bundles of late and updating them can be a...

Its the little things

I’ve been forced to start using Thunderbird for my Office email as there is some bizarre...

Corrs Light

Just seen an advert for Corrs Light, apparently its brewed to be light. Given what I know about...

FreeBSD 7.0 Installation with 8GB of...

I was installing a server for a client earlier today which had four 2GB RAM sticks in totalling 8GB...

Christian Idiocy (via Geoff Garside)

Palmtree

Can still hardly believe it. I’m one of those people that might write some code, but never...

Xbox 360 and Connect360

The other day my Xbox 360 finally arrived, despite telling Chitty-link 3 times, once even before the...

Geni.com

While reading through a book earlier today a site called geni.com was held up as a good example of...

Dara O'Briain @ Hammersmith Apollo

Last Friday I went to go and see Dara O’Briain at the Hammersmith Apollo thanks to a birthday...

Added comment support

I’ve added Disqus comments to this tumblog now. I’ll see if its useful at all.

Delerium in London

I went to see Delerium last night at the Islington Carling Academy. Was absolutely brilliant. It...

Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

Windows Airport drivers improved

Seems like the Airport drivers provided for Vista x64, either the OS drivers or simply the 2.1...

Vista x64 on MacBook Pro

I have spent this bank holiday weekend upgrading my BootCamp Windows installation from XP to Vista....

Preferably never

*Phone rings*
Me: Hello
Market Researcher: Hi my name is <forgotten>, I'm calling on behalf of <company> and we're doing a survey into past times and activities in your local area for your council...
Me: Urmm, I'm actually at work at the moment
MR: Ok, when would be a good time to call back
Me: Preferably never
MR: Thank you for your time
Me: Bye
*Hang Up*

Coherent

Never noticed how close c and x were

Geoffrey Garside: you there?
Chris Byrd: hi
Chris Byrd: yep
Geoffrey Garside: sex
Geoffrey Garside: sec*
Chris Byrd: lol
Geoffrey Garside: those keys are dangerously close together
Chris Byrd: heh

I love having a proper terminal

One of things I love most about being on a Mac is having access to a proper Terminal shell. Not like...

Flunk in a Timotei advert

It’s nice when you see, or rather hear, artists that you really like appearing in adverts....

Pastie: Rails.app.config

The Thing About Git

Geoffrey Garside: oooh, macbook air on the gadget show
Tom Holland: url?
Geoffrey Garside: tv://five
Tom Holland: heh

Xbox 360 Controller

The other day, Thursday to be exact, I was wandering home from the office to the DLR when I noticed...

How is this a "safety" feature?

Just need to rant really. Twice in the past week I’ve returned home from work, turned on the...

OneLessDesk™ :: Heckler Design

via Sinfest

Firefox 3 Beta 3: omg it looks nice...

And it really does, on Mac at least. It finally fits in with the rest of the applications appearance...

Epsicode - Little Gamers: Teh Game » Blog...

Leopard Manpath

If you use MacPorts quite a bit like I do then you sometimes need to read a manpage for a MacPorts...

“If George Lucas hadn’t cut away from the cockpit of the...”
— Dr Nic » Using Git within...

Installing Git 1.5.2.4 on Mac OS X Leopard

Charles Arthur: Internet Explorer is falling...

Good Gawker settings

If you’ve ever played with Gawker and not got terribly good results, ie video is too quick,...

Lipsiadmin

New book by Matt

Canary Wharf Towers at speed

FreeBSD: devel/ruby-gems 1.0.1

MacWorld 2008

Well, the Jobs Keynote of the 2008 MacWorld has been and gone, a few things have been announced....

RE: Whuups...

Just classic how that happened. Tom’s recently got an Intel MacBook now that his 4 or 5 year old...

Whuups....

Tom Holland: these Intel Macs are definitely less reliably then the PPC ones
Tom Holland: things seem to frack up so much more
Tom Holland disconnected 18: 32

Quick Silverscreen

“If you type “google” into Google, you can break...”
— Katherine Parkinson as...

“So, I walked over to the cop and asked if he knew the Al...”
— McSweeney’s Internet...

I can haz lolbugz

Been a fan of Robby Russel’s lolbugz for quite some time, they’re amusing and they get...

Here.... have a tab

Tom: fun day at work?
Geoff: getting pissed off at rspec
Geoff: you?
Geoff:
Tom: the usual fun with Java's speed limitations
Geoff: just sent you a tab :P
Geoff:
Geoff: have another, share it with a friend
Tom: I see nowt ;)
Tom: just a white space
Tom: might need updated version
Geoff: here have another :P
Geoff: get it yet?
Tom: yes but I might have to beat you to death now

Quick snap of what my desktop looks like at work, complete...

Honey Honey

Thanks to Tom for gifting me Honey Honey by Feist this morning. Ironically I’d been...

N95 Earpiece

My N95 earpiece is fixed now :D On New Years I’d had some problems calling people which...

Hiding folders in Mac OS X

Andrew Garner asked me this morning if I knew of a way to hide folders on Mac OS X. I responded with...