Archive for August, 2006


Good news everyone! For those who missed the ‘mech’ games of yore, they’re now available for free. If only I had a mech for transport - rush hour traffic anyone? Muahaha.


Vista development sinks to an all time low - enforcing a specific startup sound on unsuspecting users. Scoble reckons it’s kosher, I reckon he’s just not getting the point.


Think wiki meets CMS meets blog. This is something I’ll be using on my home server, as it combines all the elements I need. Rock on.


A great run through of three simple yet feature rich wikis’ - tiddlywiki has to be the best pick, with it’s CMS like layout and ajax-like navigation.

33′ Rockers content scraping - 5ThirtyOne
 • The joys of having great content is that it has a habit of cropping up verbatim elsewhere, sans source.

google me this..

It appears google doesn’t beleive in Santa Firefox anymore.. indeed it’s now ’similar to an automated request or spyware’..
It’s “firefox on a mac” - not exactly your average trojan riddled script kiddie ‘doz box or
snakes on a plane now, is it?
.. and yes, as a side note, I’m currently running OS X - it’s […]

All the king’s men..

I’ve come to a fork() in the operating System road.
Indeed.. I’m not entirely sure I wish to install another Microsoft Operating System product, again.. ever.
But, I’m getting ahead of myself. You see, late last night I decided to free up some previously assigned space on my workstations SATA drive. Not a big deal really and […]


Lets rock and roll, all over again, with STS-115. Atlantis is due for liftoff August 27.


Is it just me, or is the idea that we finally have a man-made object about to breach the very edges of the solar system just the coolest thing?

Apple’s Mac Pro - A True PowerMac Successor
 • Anand takes the latest
mac pro for a test drive and decides that while FB-DIMMs aren’t too hot, the overall impression seems quite positive.

Fear the camouflaged ninja

Having run with the default graphics in
my take on the
lovingly green foliage for some time, I felt it was about time to stamp it with something more indicative of smackfoo.