The Multipack describes itself as “a community of multi-talented Web professionals from across the West Midlands” and attending one of their meetings has been high on my list for over a year now. This Saturday I finally made the effort to get to Birmingham for best price cialis the March meeting and it was definitely [...]
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Vim auto indenting
I used to get annoyed when pasting text into a Vim window as each line would indent one more tab than the last line. To fix it I used to add set noautoindent in /etc/vimrc, however this unsurprisingly turns off auto indenting, which is a useful feature for normal typing. Today I came up with [...]
Google Developer Day 2007 (London)
On Thursday I attended the Google Developer day 2007 event in London and overall I’d say it was worth the day out of the office.My headline excuse for going was that I’m working on a project that requires some Google Maps integration and as there was a 1.5 hours hands on workshop on it I [...]
Where’s my spy camera?
My quad core Mac Pro finally arrived yesterday much to the relief of the people at work as I am no longer able to parrot out every 5 minutes “Where’s my spy camera”. I’ve never used a Mac for day to day tasks before so I’m more than a little daunted. I took it home [...]
What is your personal spam index?
It's easy to work out, take the formula (that I just made up): S / ( P x A ) = M Where: S = Total number of spam emails that you have P = Period that they were collected over A = Num of accounts collected from M = My spa order generic viagra [...]
iTunes 7 and a slight screw up
Apple launched loads of new stuff today: Something about smallest ipod Somthing about bigger ipods Something about the medium ipods being bigger, but smaller and lasting longer New iTunes, does some new stuff Whilst I was waiting for iTunes 7 to “Determine Gapless Palyback Information” over my 75Gb of music I had a very brief [...]
Goodbye London
The men came today and took all of our stuff away in a truck; this came after a week of packing, saying goodbye to people and generally not having enough time to get everything done. I drove to Upton in our little old Renult with all of the computers in the back and Cathie went [...]
Sad PHP poem
Disclaimer: You have to be a geek to find the following even mildly interesting or heaven forbid, amusing. List: php-general Subject: [PHP] Sad PHP Poem From: “Martin Alterisio” Date: 2006-06-26 4:25:20 A sad p buy cheap viagra pills online oem of an algorithm where solitude brought excessive use of cpu cycles and memory allocation for [...]
Performancing: The perfect Blogging Firefox extension?
I've been playing with my Firefox extensions this morning as I recently re-installed windows at home and wanted to make sure that it had all of the essentials that I use at work. So this led me to 'waste' 15 mins browsing the Extensions repository and I came up with a real find, Performancing: Performancing [...]
Disable the F Lock key on Microsoft Keyboards
If you've got a MS keyboard then you probably have come across the annoyance where the functions keys have to be switched on using the F Lock key. Well be annoyed no more: The F Lock key is a hardware switch in the keyboard. Its state cannot be controlled programmatically. Its default condition is “off”. [...]