Archive for the 'blog' Category

The Problem with Nickel Creek

So you're coding along to your favourite type of productivity music [this week mine is country/folk/bluegrass] and turn shuffle off. You listen to lovely stuff like ...

Admit it, you’re one of them huff duffers aren’t you?

Today I huffduffed for the first time. I've planned to for a while... The word Huffduffer derives from a technology called Huff-Duff [HF/DF] that ...

Band of Brothers followup: The Pacific

Seriously excited to hear recently (announced eight months ago) that HBO have been filming a follow-up mini series to Band of Brothers based in the ...

The Sky Mobile App: Review & How to cancel!

In early November O2 iPhone and BSkyB announced that they were releasing a limited free trial of the Sky News & Sports Mobile App [iTMS ...

Lent 2010

Every year since I was very young I've been coerced into giving up something for Lent. If you don't know what that is check out ...

Love Tennis?

My old friend Chris has just launched a tennis related blog at http://lovetennisblog.com/ If that's your sort of thing, check it out!

Ruby on Rails: Get some random records

EDIT AGAIN: Much better.. To get a 'num_reqd' array of random objects, you can use something like this. named_scope :large, :conditions => ['image_file_name IS NOT ...

Leopard Mac Refuses to Stay Asleep…

The last week or so my Leopard iMac has been waking up in the middle of the night... it's quite annoying. Finally found the answer here: macrumors ...

Rails / LAMP / Wordpress Setup Guide

I've had huge amounts of pain getting WordPress set up locally over the last few weeks on my old machine and when it struck again ...

It’s been quiet around here

I have six draft posts in the wings waiting to be pushed out, works in progress related to technologies I've been working with lately ...