March 2009
96 posts
rediscovering the joys of simple SMS on a push button phone.
Mar 31st
International Driving Permit : Post Offices that... →
Applying for an international driving license - only a fiver!
Mar 30th
T-MINUS 6 days till Japan Road Trip
Mar 30th
Dr. Dobb's | Agile on a Fixed Budget | August 3,... →
variable scope. The situation that most projects find themselves in
Mar 29th
What You'll Wish You'd Known →
I love this school talk from paul graham, one of the Y Combinators founders. Great life lessons no matter how old you are.
Mar 28th
#G20 going peacefully on Piccadilly
Mar 28th
Police starting to get involved at #G20 http://twitpic.com/2j19j
Mar 28th
Nut photo op @ #g20 http://twitpic.com/2j1ff
Mar 28th
#g20 from the office… http://twitpic.com/2j187
Mar 28th
The Simple Dollar » Most Time Management Is... →
productivity tips are two a penny on the net. Here are a few which have been battle tested
Mar 27th
Discovering the killer app of adobe flex: gis mapping.
Mar 25th
Translator - Rails i18n Simplifier - graysky →
good looking rails translation plugin
Mar 24th
danieltenner.com — How to get a merchant account →
Mar 24th
ooh this web2py looks nice..
Mar 23rd
Cufon works. In shock.
Mar 23rd
wondering if this blog writing lark is all its cracked up to be.
Mar 22nd
swombat's peeves at master - GitHub →
Decent looking API for Protx Server payments in Ruby
Mar 21st
Right, sod this GUI Suvbersion rubbish, back to the command line.
Mar 20th
turns out Versions for OSX is a turd. No way to recursivly add new files or simply: “svn add * —force”. WTF?!
Mar 20th
I can confirm that the MacBook keyboard is not particulatly resistant to tomato soup.
Mar 20th
Versions for mac registration thank you: “thanks, you rock!”. Great bit of ego massaging for €39.
Mar 20th
Automatically add new files when commit - ... →
recursive add new files in subversion
Mar 20th
themes for wp →
Mar 20th
popcuts. buy a song. get paid everytime it sells again. Brilliant idea. http://www.popcuts.com/
Mar 18th
I have a unhealthy obsession for mitsuya cider.
Mar 18th
Rails Underground →
london rails conference on friday and sat in July. Looks like it may be a nice thing to do this summer!
Mar 18th
vista FAIL. When the mac plugged into the projector, it worked. When the pc plugged in, 4 dialogue boxes. Bad at home, deadly at conferences
Mar 17th
iphone 3.0, native tethering. brilliant, but 3 years late…
Mar 17th
Citrix guy boring the crowd @ camb tech talk… Zzzz
Mar 17th
oh, that’s good then: http://tinyurl.com/dx5vbe
Mar 17th
Managed to sneak onto the Cambridge tech summary. At the “william gates” computer lab. What’s wrong with ‘bill’?
Mar 17th
Riding to work is one of life’s pleasures. Unless you are 10 mins late, in which case it is one of it’s trials.
Mar 17th
Instant Matcha icecream: Mix a teaspoon of matcha over vanilla icecream and stir. boom!
Mar 15th
RT @simonw The Guardian’s new datablog is excellent: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
Mar 15th
Agile Software Development: The Power of a... →
Useful post on why whiteboards are best for agile development
Mar 15th
bike thoughts: In winter everyone smokes. In summer, only the smelly people do
Mar 14th
pluginaweek/statemachine a massive improvement over AASM. Top dog!
Mar 14th
gawd, he’s a machine: http://timeforsomestories.blogspot.com/
Mar 14th
More davesecretary. http://tinyurl.com/bmdzb7 Legend.
Mar 14th
all this chat about entrepreneurship is nice to hear. To us small business (http://bit.ly/ZaTA1) geeks it’s been a long time under the radar
Mar 14th
AWS "sucks the air out of the room." Cuts EC2... →
Why IT should be switching over to EC2
Mar 14th
ColorBox - customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery →
nice looking thickbox alternative
Mar 14th
Supercomputers take over the world by 2025 →
The sort of processing “required” for human brain functional simulation will be reached by 2013. Interesting choice of words.
Mar 14th
incidentally, davesecretary: http://www.saladon.net/stories.html
Mar 13th
I agree, davesecretary is a literary genius. Goodbye evening.
Mar 13th
The mosso site hurts my eyes. Can someone @mosso redesign with contrast in mind? Plz? K thx.
Mar 13th
Gave a talk on Rails today at UNEP. It should have been about half as long, but I think we’re gonna do some projects with it!
Mar 13th
Oh yes- the per hour useage is 3cents/hr too
Mar 12th
1 day into my wheat and dairy fast. Feel 10 times less farty!
Mar 12th
Oh snap. AWS offering flat rate pricing on EC2. $325/yr for a 1.7GB slice. Stiff competition for Slicehost.
Mar 12th