Send a photo junkie to camp
Jan 28, 2003
Photojunkie: Send a kid to camp. If you live in Toronto, New York City or are going to SXSW in Austin, and want some quality shots of yourself, look no further. To … Read more
Now serving dynamic and static pages
Jan 27, 2003
I was initially against using Blosxom to generate static pages as it would have meant duplication of information on my harddrive. Why should I have countless HTML and RSS files in addition to the TXT versions of my weblog entries? I then thought that it would be nice to generate static pages which played nicely … Read more
Categories back online; RSS feed additions
Jan 26, 2003
A new version of Blosxom was released last week and I decided to upgrade. This new version fixes a problem I was having with invalid name attributes for categorised entries and so I am now able to add categories to my weblog. This means … Read more
Wireless sports data on a PDA
Jan 22, 2003
If you’re a sports fan and have a Palm OS® or a PocketPC® device, you might want to check out Covers’ new wireless sports matchups and live odds, powered by Phantom Fiber, Inc. Those with a wireless solution for their PDA can take advantage of up-to-the-minute sports matchups, injuries, live odds and articles … Read more
Syndirella
Jan 21, 2003
Dive Into Mark: New news aggregator for Windows. Following Mark’s lead, I started using Syndirella for my news feeds. I was using AmphetaDesk before, which was OK once I installed the outliner plugin but it still wasn’t up to scratch.
Among other things, AmphetaDesk lacked a liberal RSS parser, RSS auto-discovery … Read more
On My Mind
Prescient thoughts on China's economic dominance, Japan's place in the art and fashion world in1895. "The art dep... goodreads.com/quotes/6561469…
Though I never watched it, I'll miss Sun News. Its viewers will now have to scatter to the dark world of right wing blogs.
The only surprising thing about the ads, eavesdropping on smart TVs is that these “features” haven’t been cracked. cnet.com/au/news/samsun…
Selfridges to launch a gender neutral clothing space in its Oxford Street store. The future or short-run experiment? fashionbeans.com/2015/selfridge…
A veritable feast. RT @Nanaaba: You're in traffic on Tetteh Quarshie roundabout; this is in [hand]. What do you buy? instagram.com/p/yu5fwtOH4t/
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