Monthly Archives: November 2008

England 6 - 32 New Zealand

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 [...]

Using GIMP Brushes with Seashore

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 [...]

And I Thought I Was Geeky

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.

“The connection was refused” Error Message When Using Leopard’s Web Sharing

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 [...]

Speech Recognition Made Easy With Vista

I have no more to add:

Music to Work To

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!