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Naturally Curly Hair
20 March 2007
Read moreI had to post this, I’ve just lost an hour of my life on this website for people with curly hair naurallycurly.com. I’ve got hopelessly curly hair and lots of it so I can see me being a regular visitor to this site. As always, good to …
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Open Office Custom Colours
14 March 2007
Read moreYesterday I was working on a document in Open Office and wanted to colour the background of some cells to match a diagram I had created1.
The choice of colours wasn’t great and there wasn’t a “more colours” button. After a few minutes of growling I went …
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Tiny Vim on Ubuntu
12 March 2007
Read moreA new installation of Ubuntu exists at work and I’ve discovered that by default, it doesn’t come with real vim. The clue is in the error message:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax enableE538: No mouse support: mouse=aTo get things …
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Handknitters Handbook
11 March 2007
Read moreA while ago my not-mother-in-law bought me this book and its been great so I had to sing its praises here.
Its not glossy or colourful, in fact the illustrations are two-colour, but its really useful. I’ve recently come back to knitting from crochet and I live some distance …
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PHP register_globals is ON
08 March 2007
Read moreI started writing PHP when I was at University, in 2001 or thereabouts. Having checked the dates it looks like I did technically write PHP before PHP 4.3 was released and register_globals went out of fashion. I don’t recall it though and obviously its been a while!
Today …
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Happy International Womens Day
08 March 2007
Read moreI know I’ve been a bit quiet this week, new job is keeping me occupied … which its supposed to! I had to pop up and wish you all a Happy International Women’s Day, today 8th March.
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Yorkshire Wool Shops
04 March 2007
Read moreThere was a recent post to the Leeds Knitterati mailing list (the local knitting group) asking about local wool and equipment suppliers. I replied mentioning The Wool Shop and another member sent this which I had to share as its so good!
There’s also quite a good shop at …
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UK PHP Conference: The Roundup
02 March 2007
Read moreAs promised, here’s a more in-depth update on our trip to the PHP London Conference last week. I’m sure there are others who will write more fluently and accurately about the talks, but here’s what I brought home from it.
Cal Evans: My First Mashup
Cal is …
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New Addition To The Family
01 March 2007
Read moreI’m proud to announce that we are now the owners of a MacBook! Or rather, Kevin is the proud owner of one and I am being friends with it too. It arrived yesterday and is called Edoras. All our computers need names because we have too many to be …
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CRAFT Magazine
27 February 2007
Read moreI may have mentioned that I made it to the PHP Conference last week. O’Reilly had their own stand and were doing a healthy 30% discount on a selection of technical books. I was enchanted to see in the corner of the stand, copies of CRAFT – so I bought …
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WTF?
27 February 2007
Read moreThe Daily WTF website has redefined itself to make WTF stand for “Worse Than Failure”... WTF???
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UK PHP Conference: The Highlights
25 February 2007
Read moreI’ve been away for a couple of days at the UK PHP Conference in London. Due to the unique way that train ticket prices work here, it was wildly cheaper to travel a day either side of the day we actually wanted to be in London for which allowed …