Category: tech

I’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 …

The Daily WTF website has redefined itself to make WTF stand for “Worse Than Failure”... WTF???

We bought a new camera yesterday. Kevin has a good digital camera but its quite big and now quite old. He saw that Jessop’s was having a sale so we went and looked … we’ve now got a fujifilm finepix F650 [1]. Its quite small and quite powerful with …

Like the technical wizard that I am I’ve just spent 48 hours (almost) with all email to my lornajane.net domain getting lost in the ether somewhere. The story is one of those silly bureaucratic ones which I won’t repeat here because my hosting company, flump , have been …

Following our PHPThrowdown experience I saw on their website that they have mugs on CafePress. For ages I have wanted the “code like a girl” mug from CafePress having read Kathy Sierra’s article of the same name.

Well the order arrived today: One PHP Throwdown 2007 mug and one …

I’ve just stumbled across Scott Carpenter’s site Moving to Freedom site and it reminded me something I meant to write about.

Some time ago, my little sister entered Further Education and needed her own computer. So I tarted up my desktop, reinstalled it, and dumped it in her …

I have written about Google Analytics before, once or twice but I haven’t managed to put across the sheer volume of information. Today I had a look back at 2006 (the first year for this site) and looked at how it went. I thought I could share the main …

In the summer, I bought a nabaztag for Kevin as his birthday present. Within a couple of weeks he had figured out how to intercept its web requests and replace them with instructions of his own. The little creature has five lights – one under his feet, three across his tummy …

I fell across this article describing how Drew McLellan implemented the Technorati Link Count Widget onto his textpattern blog. I’d like to do this some day (not that I get a great deal of traffic, particularly not technorati traffic) but if it starts to appear in my stats then …

Over at the Well Designed URLs Blog they’ve started a movement to tag all urls-that-suck on del.icio.us and they will later rank the top ten sites with utterly rubbish URLs. I think this is a great idea and will be adding my own as I come across …