Archive | March, 2007

Chilli power

Last year, soon after we moved, I bought 2 chilli plants at a Malvern farmers market. Off the back of those 2 plants – 1x Jalepeno and 1x Scotch Bonnet – I got about 50 fruits each, yummy! Well this year I’m having a go at growing my own. I got 50x ‘Bolivian Rainbow’ and [...]

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Mochikit Widgets

I’ve been using Mochikit extensively for some heavy interface development work that i’ve been doing recently. Well I needed a ‘slider’ widget for sizing some elements on-the-fly and was hoping not to write my own. Luckily I stumbled across UI4Web which used Mochikit as a base and supplies out-of-the box a slider control, amongst others. [...]

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Why I didn’t like Center Parcs

Cathie and I spent last week at Center Parcs, Penrith, in the Lake district with the kids. If I had to sum it up in one word then without question that word would be Babylon. It would be an understatement to say that I didn’t rate the experience: it was overpriced – but I was [...]

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