The system techies at Landau Forte College are gearing up for a sweep of your user areas, and you have less than a week to cover your tracks. This isn’t something that will happen to a couple of repeat-offending scapegoats after a seven day amnesty – the network admins are applying pressure now, and they […]
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Quick fix for strange CSS link behavior
Posts on GTD and photography for Scenes and Emos in the pipeline, but just a quick update – something that I discovered working on a website for a school project earlier. If you’re not into webdesign, give this one a miss. If you’ve any experience in semantic webdesign/xHTML+CSS, you will know how… well, frankly what […]
Learning to program in Ruby in 15 minutes
Ruby is an open-source programming language that can be used as a server-side preprocessor, similar to PHP, Perl, Python and so on. What sets it apart is that it is surprisingly user-friendly and programmer-orientated. The official description from the Ruby website is: A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. […]
Not unhappy, just tired
Have you ever noticed that when you’re tired, you’re often also unhappy? Or that when you’re unhappy you just want to sleep? I wake up at 7.30 every weekday morning. I can’t get around that – it is the absolute latest that I can get up and only be very slightly late to school. I […]
Some things just don’t get done
At the end of the day, as I empty my locker and pack my diary, I decide that once I am home I will concentrate on just perhaps one or two broad tasks before I sleep. Usually I have something specific in mind – installing a new hard-drive, learning more about PHP and finishing my […]
DRM is Bad.
As it is nearing the launch of Vista, the latest incarnation of Windows, it seems a good time to warn some passing visitors of one of its most serious flaws: it is defective by design. Windows Vista is crippled by built-in Digital Rights Management, or DRM. This form of ‘rights management’ has been around for […]