January 2008
77 posts
Blaming the bad weather on Ben G. God is obviously punishing him for his attack on homeopathy.
Hmm, I entered only the data from my P60 and HMRC still say I owe £1.40 tax - that suggests to me that my P60 or the online calc is wrong.
Just realised that it’s self assessment day, when tax needn’t be taxing… Great.
So I guess I got kicked off another My Little Pony... →
I’ll let the title do the talking… Very funny.
Mirroring a website with wget →
I want an offline copy of the Mozilla Developer Centre.
My hair’s coming along a treat - http://flickr.com/photos/chrisjroos/2218197451/
My hair's coming along a treat →
chrisjroos posted a photo:
Picked up the local papers this morning. I’m now eight papers behind. Hmmmm.
Operation Deserter Storm Pt. 2 | The Daily Show |... →
Very very funny
Do's and don'ts with babies :: Hilarious pics →
Some useful advice
@beng - you’ll be fine unless the kids are on a “learn English with Ben G, sponsored by the Daily Express” course
Wondering whether playing pool, on Thursdays and for a pub that sells cheap beer and doesn’t really shut, is such a good idea…
Trying to wrap some tests around some medium sized sql scripts. Tests make me happy.
I think my blog migration is complete - static files rule.
@floehopper - still working on it although I’m pleased with my progress. Just the monthly/daily index pages to create now.
The Thanet Star » TDC and the Real Black Hole →
Matt B noticed that the Thanet Council web team have failed to register (or re-register) for a component they are using. Excellent work guys.
Attempting to migrate my typo hosted blog to a static site.
Been for a swim and played golf. Now I’m tired. At 13:30. Great.
@threedaymonk - that explains the pathetic quality of the skype call I had into the office earlier then…
The Future of Ideas is now Free (Lessig Blog) →
I’m not actually sure what the book is about but the Creative Commons licensing of it strikes me as being pretty cool.
Spoiled Kid Upset Wee Box Doesn't Contain Wii |... →
Blog reaction to our Nintendo Wii christmas video.
NINTENDO WII WINS 2007 CUSTOMERS’ CHOICE AWARD,... →
Blog reaction to our Nintendo Wii press release.
My library - Google Book Search →
Cool - I didn’t realise you could create a library of your books on google book search. What’s that you say, if they know which books are in my library then they could employ some very specific marketing to me. Hmm, interesting.
@beng - Yeah, but you can’t tell them.
@beng - I’ve a costume you can borrow (on the left, obviously): http://tinyurl.com/2x5hrw
Just added disqus.com comments to http://the-local-paper.co.uk
BBC - bbc.co.uk Standards & Guidelines - HTML... →
At a glance this looks like a useful set of guidelines from the BBC for marking up html documents.
Recently rediscovered Red Hot Chili Peppers and now can’t stop listening to One Hot Minute.
Shitty Sky unsubscription form →
chrisjroos posted a photo:
Why exactly do you need my name in order to stop spamming me Sky?
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
Wasting time scouring the web rather than sleeping.
Mongrel: Apache →
Includes some apache configuration directives to deny access to the .svn directories.
Pixmania - shite, useless error message →
chrisjroos posted a photo:
A most excellent error message from the pixmania store.
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
Battling with Apache’s mod_rewrite
YouTube - jon stewart on crossfire →
This is the video that first introduced me to Jon Stewart. I mentioned it to Paul only the other day. It wasn’t exactly how I remembered it - they weren’t politicians, just supporters of the left and the right. It’s still funny though.
Network Solutions Using Questionable Tactic to... →
Network Solutions are, apparently, bastards.
Twitter / thelocalpaper →
Twitter user for the-local-paper.co.uk
The Local Paper | Google Groups →
Google group for the the-local-paper.co.uk
Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES →
Hmm. It probably shouldn’t make me laugh but I’m afraid it did.
Setting up supporting services for the-local-paper (email, twitter, group, blog etc). Hmm, this may all be a bit premature.
ekosystem.org :: forum :: graffiti street art... →
I used to get annoyed with graffiti but since seeing the stuff Banksy does I’m coming round to the idea of it being a valid art form. Lots of ‘similar’ graffiiti on this page.
Sweating. A lot.
#137197 - Pastie →
A little script that creates a diff file for each revision (down to a revision of your choosing) of an svn working directory. Useful for searching (grep) changesets. I’ll try to write this up later.
Suffering another xname outage.
Second paper added and couple of small changes - http://tinyurl.com/2edtkl
Chipmunk - sketches.mov →
Amazing video pointed out by Ben - more videos in that movies dir too. It’s like the real world but in a web browser. Wow.
@beng - Thanks for the offer. Maybe we can chat on Skype a bit later? After you’ve done your homework, obviously.
Thinking that business cards can be unnecessary if google loves you enough…
First paper added - http://tinyurl.com/yuykxf - so, so, so much to do.
SoonR Raises $9.5M from Cisco, Bringing Total... →
Similar to what Alex is working on?
More local paper hackery. Currently produces static pages, for each article, and an index! Source: http://tinyurl.com/2znq4q