End of October
It’s end of October, which means the end of Pink for October, an effort to promote National Breast Cancel Awareness Month.
It’s end of October, which means the end of Pink for October, an effort to promote National Breast Cancel Awareness Month.
Well, it’s a special time of year because it’s her birthday on Monday. It’s a special kind of age so I was a bit naughty and approached a lot of people to give me money. A wiser man would’ve stopped there, but with a bit of help from her Dad passing through the states, the money has instead been spent. We’ve bought her a Canon EOS 400D (or ‘Digital Rebel XTi’ as the nutcase American marketeers have badged it).
Came across the best shout-box comment ever on Last.FM.
I believe it’s the done thing in this Web 2.0 world of ours to post indecipherable teasers of our projects. Well, work isn’t quite ready for that yet but at least my evenings have produced something perhaps tempting:
Since Hanni’s blogging is rather low-key since her pinksocks.co.uk domain combusted, I’ll drop a little pointer towards Hanni saying thank you for the camera we got her last week. She’s also said it photographically.
Back in September, Fatty posted a thorough tutorial on using Google Earth to tag Flickr photos. As I pointed out in the comments, there were a few refinements that can be made by delving into the Google Earth preferences.
With all this talk of geotagging, I’ve a lazy web question for you. Take the following case:
Ackey emailed me today complaining that he’d exceeded his iPod capacity. He wants to know how best to keep it sync’d without missing out on the music he wants to listen to.
Hello, welcome to dial-a-view
To locate the area in which you wish to observe
You must program in the longitude and the latitude
For a closer, more detailed picture
Use either the zoom or micro-zoom controls
Good luck</blockquote>‘Miner at the Dial-a-View’ – Grandaddy
Just the littlest of entries. I’ve just discovered that Elbow’s ‘Leaders of the Free World’ is a free MP3 download on Last.fm. If you’ve not heard the title track from one of last year’s albums of the year, go download now!
In which I complain about the look and feel and Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX.o3
In which I need new earbuds for my iPod.
Right, for about a week now I’ve been having an issue in OSX whereby text is rendering very badly indeed. At random, characters are missing from blocks of text, be that in Web Pages (in Safari and Firefox) in subject lines in Mail.app, on captions on the Dock. All over. If you go back and forward in the web browser the missing characters usually re-appear.
I’ve been working for a week or so now on learning to build Dashboard widgets for Mac OSX. I’ve got one for the rather incredible Last.FM in the works, but since it’s quite complex I took time out for something simpler.