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1st June 2008 10:22 |
There’s still lots of work to be done on this site (including functional fixes!!), please bear with me. So far I’ve added screenshots for my latest projects, and not much more.
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25th October 2008 12:16 |
Setting up a Mac for PHP development involved a few visits to Marc Liyanage’s excellent site, playing with NetInfo and the command line. But now there’s MAMP, and NetInfo is gone. So here’s how to setup PHP development on Leopard. Continue»
14th October 2008 11:56 |
To change the command line prompt on bash, my shell of choice, you need to edit the file .bash_profile in your home directory. To do that, UNIX machos will tell you to use vi. This I find only slightly less painful than walking on my knees on dried chickpeas, and I won’t touch it (I won’t even touch vim, its marginally less awkward cousin). Continue»
11th October 2008 12:55 |
I am always interested in ways of structuring, presenting, and absorbing information. I came across SQ3R while reading Peter Barry’s excellent Beginning Theory. SQ3R is one of a family of study algorithms for humans, and it is not too dissimilar from the way search spiders scan web pages. Continue»
30th September 2008 18:07 |
Sometimes I wonder about the ICA’s film curators. You’d think if they choose a Japanese animation for a Saturday night show, it’s bound to be a good one, right? Not a soppy coming of age drama for teenagers. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Continue »
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Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Released: 2008
Country: Japan
29th September 2008 0:18 |
Not the “definitive history of hip hop” the pull quotes on the cover promise, more a “history of ghetto politics and hip hop up to the LA riots”. Still a good read though. Well, half of it, anyway. Continue »
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Author: Jeff Chang
Released: 2005
Country: US, California, San Francisco
28th February 2008 15:02 |
Here’s a list of all the fixes and amends I need to make to the site.
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6th January 2008 13:22 |
We arrived in Cyprus on a cheap charter flight on the 29th of December, and stayed for a week until the 5th of January.
Would I recommend it? Continue»
5th January 2008 15:56 |
As we were looking for a toilet off the motorway on the way to Lefkosia (Nicosia), we passed by Aphrodite’s birthplace. It’s a lovely spot for a break, a little walk on a pebbly beach, and there’s a hut where you can buy yourself a cup of tea. Continue»
5th January 2008 15:01 |
The trees weren’t actually flickering. It is just a trick of the camera.
5th January 2008 14:43 |
We drove from occupied Northern Cyprus to the Troodos mountains in the west. Excellent drive, through barren landscapes with classical Turkish music on the radio, like some middle eastern version of Paris, Texas. Continue»