Well the wedding went really well and we had a nice relaxing break in Edinburgh. It’s such a great city (even if the weather was rubbish!) and the people were so friendly As i expected i’ve come back to a large pile of stuff to catch up on so thought i’d post something simple to
Category: Stuff
Useful / Useless link of today?
Just clicked a random link in my dashboard and stumbled across this “Real Time HTML Editor” Enter some code in the top frame and it gets rendered in the botttom Guess it might be useful for trying out quick little things or if your learning HTML I thought it was pretty cool So thanks to
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The Sinclair Spectrum is 25 years old!
*-* Corrected after a comment from deKay Just saw this article on the BBC News site that reports on the 25 anniversary of the launch of the ZX Spectrum! The first computer that i could actually call my own was the ZX Spectrum +3 It has 128K of RAM and a built-in 3in floppy disk drive! At
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Microsoft Blogs Resource
Just passing on the knowledge Steve Clayton posted about a directory of Microsoft Blogs on Seattle PI Very interesting…i found an XBox blog i didn’t know about They are organised by technology (e.g Server, Office, etc) and hopefully will grow as it gets added to Excellent resource!
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Blogroll Update
When i moved to Outlook 2007 i didn’t import my old feed list. I had subscribed to lots of blogs that while initially useful i just stopped reading after a while I’m now more selective over the feeds i subscribe to. I added some feeds i hadn’t gotten around to today so i’ve updated the
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What to know about your local telephone exchange?
Just a quickie as I’m really busy catching up everything after my enforced absence I thought i ‘d share one of my favourite resources The Broadband Resource (UK only) The idea of this site is that you can gets lots of juicy information about your local telephone exchange with regards to ADSL. It will tell your
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Can’t wait for this to take off!
I haven’t commented anything about the CES as everything has generally been said elsewhere However i stumbled across a video on Techeblog It’s basically an LCD screen that shows a different image depending on the angle your viewing from One of the applications mentioned in the video is that you could have one screen in
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Cool WordPress Feature
After writing up my last post i noticed a pop-up preview type effect whenever i hovered over one of the links in the post Turns out i’m one of the lucky beta testers for the SNAP plugin (details here!) The page you a linking to appears as a little thumbnail you can click. Looks quite
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Learning Something New
When i was reading Susannes post entitled “What is the backward P at the end of my sentence” i initially thought “I already know how to toggle paragraph marks” What i didn’t realise is that they have a specific name :- a Pilcro Just a useless bit of trivia i’m pleased to learn as i’ll
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Christmas Cheer!
This will probably be my last post for a while as i’m planning on enjoying my break! Found a game this morning called Qwerty Warriors (i think) The idea of the game is to shoot the oncoming enemy by typing a word that appears under their name Wish i had this when i was first learning