October 2003

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On Saturday 24th September Yahoo upgraded their messenger service, meaning (afaik) that all users had to download the lastest client from th...
Published on 01 October in general
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I’ve spent a lot more time recently (i.e. the last month or so) talking, rather than doing. This has to change. I have plenty of projects I want to work on, time to focus.
Published on 01 October in general
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After all that “I wrote about the book of Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog I find
Published on 01 October in general
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More Mozilla/RDF -related links: General RDF-in-Mozilla Docs (tons of links) RD...
Published on 01 October in general
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I meant to blog about this when I first read it at the beginning of last month, but I kept forgetting. Yoz’s CSS blogwank rant i...
Published on 01 October in general
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Fortunately I clearly don’t have any readers who are very interested in table-cell, because if I had, they’d have torn me to pieces on my post about how
Published on 03 October in general
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FOAFer (via Haiko) is a new online FOAF-viewer with a great deal of potential. It sees very simple FOAF files very clear...
Published on 03 October in general
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I promise this is my one and only foray into LiveJournal-isms, but it has to be said: Getting up in the morning sucks.
Published on 06 October in general
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Depressing (but interesting) stuff. Original story on Green Fairy
Published on 08 October in general
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Use CVS ? Use CVS2RSS to keep track of changes to your code? Moving your repository over to
Published on 09 October in general
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FileZilla has been getting no little coverage in the blogging world over the last few days by being featured in not only
Published on 11 October in general
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Recent Roundup: The Absolute Minimum Every ‘The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Pos...
Published on 15 October in general
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Firebird 0.7: bugs have been fixed – good. can’t spot any new bugs – good bookmarks can be opened in the sidebar – good can’t see web panels for the fucking ...
Published on 15 October in general
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ooooh look at a beta of the new mozilla.org site! Nice!
Published on 15 October in general
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Well, having avoided it for as long as possible, preferring to use the Jena API, I now find myself having to know how to form RDQL queries.
Published on 16 October in general
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About two months or more ago I decided to give up following that which is now named Atom. It was born with fire, energy and drive and ha...
Published on 18 October in general
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Woo, completely CSS box shadow trick. Except that the HTML behind it is goddamn awful of course. And IE is never ever going to su...
Published on 19 October in general
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From the same site as the all-CSS box shadow comes a summary of the test results of IE6, Mozilla 1.5 and Opera 7.21 ru...
Published on 19 October in general
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Finally weblogs.mozillazine.org is alive again for me to extract this quote from asa’s blog on August 3rd: Web Panels is much m...
Published on 19 October in general
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Two Mozilla-related things I almost didn’t notice: an article that appeared at the end of October: Create Web ap...
Published on 19 October in general
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Whenever I quote from other sites, I use code like this: <blockquote cite="source url">Quoted Source</blockquote> and then I use
Published on 19 October in general
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I’ve written a lot tonight and it’s getting late, but to wrap up: No Fishing – yes.
Published on 19 October in general
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The top twenty-one books have been announced in the BBC’s The Big Read Of that twenty-o...
Published on 19 October in general
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The completely unbiased Mozilla Firebird Browser Comparison Chart (via
Published on 20 October in general
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Everyone already knows about the excellent SimpleBits, and until recently I’d just been visiting every now and then to see how the SimpleQuiz se...
Published on 20 October in general
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Random images from Google (via Oblomovka’s Oblinks)
Published on 23 October in general
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Google Googlewhacking
Published on 23 October in general
Getting SVG in Firefox
Frustrated with not being able to use SVG in Firebirdfox (especially now that
Published on 23 October in general
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Google has a new feature, the “define” keyword Geek: a person who may be very smart yet lacks the social graces of those who ...
Published on 24 October in general
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I’d like to be able to talk in glowing terms about peopleaggregator.com – it has noble ideals and seems to be A Good Idea. I think they have some bugs ...
Published on 27 October in general
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To expand on my last post slightly, my actual RDF file expresses this (generated from the W3 RD...
Published on 28 October in general
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BBC! Unified login! Now! Jesus. I must have about ten logins for different parts of the BBC website, and I still need more. How fucking annoying is that? Can’t they have some method of shari...
Published on 28 October in general
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Ha! That’ll teach me to not read around the subject! Marc has already written about the problems peopleaggregator has been having in pick...
Published on 28 October in general
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I’m a web developer and I test stuff locally, hence a lot of the time I’m looking at http://localhost. I use Firebird as my default browser, which has keyword searching built into the address...
Published on 29 October in general
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A new, excellent site full of everything you wanted to know about browsers, CSS and javascript by the master of all three. Also contains the gem that IE/Mac is a
Published on 30 October in general
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Jeffry Zeldman has already written about it, and so it’s likely that anyone who would be interested will have already seen i...
Published on 30 October in general
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Interestingly here is Ben Goodger’s original plan for Firebird web panels (via
Published on 30 October in general