Sunday, 30th November, 2008 – 19:12
That’s a scoreline to lift any Munster rugby follower’s heart. Not because it was England that were beaten by New Zealand. Not because Munster came closer to beating the all-conquering All Blacks than any of the full International sides. It’s because all these score-lines have one thing in common:
England 6 - 32 New Zealand
Wales 9 [...]
Sunday, 30th November, 2008 – 17:39
I use Seashore as my main image editor on Mac OS. I’m not a graphics designer so I don’t need an uber-powerful, all singing, all dancing graphics editor.
While Seahorse fits my needs, one thing it does lack is a comprehensive set of brushes. However, because it is based around GIMP, you can use brushes created [...]
Monday, 24th November, 2008 – 14:56
One of the hallmarks of a geek is an unnatural attention to unnecessary detail. It’s what makes geeks good programmers and the like. Though there are times when it can go a bit to far.
Witness The NitPicker’s Guide to the Lord of the Rings.
Don’t try to read all of it, your brain might explode.
Monday, 24th November, 2008 – 14:50
I came across this problem when trying to enable Web Sharing on my Macbook:
Seems that even if the Sharing Preferences Pane shows that Apache is running, it’s not. A simple Terminal command will show you:
$ ps aux | grep httpd
pmac 1796 0.0 0.0 599820 [...]
Friday, 21st November, 2008 – 06:02
I’ve been working on a website for a friend for the last few hours, while listening to this:
The last 5 hours have just flown, without any of the stress I normally feel when under a deadline. Highly recommended!