Websites Caught !
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007When I ordered my iphone I ordered it from the USA via the site www.international-orders.com.While the actual delivery was speedy, the follow-up was not. When I ordered it I didn’t want to take any chances with customs and taxes, so I payed to have it shipped out to me including prepaid taxes and customs duties [...]
Hitting the nail on the head
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Will Shiply has a very good post about a blind spot most people have. About the fact that we are denial machines, always overly optimistic.
It also links to TED talks, which is a new discovery to me. Really good talks !
WordPress plugin : wp-slimstat-ex
Monday, January 8th, 2007Yesterday I upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress and in the process I also disabled my bad-ass stats plugin.
The BA-Stats plugin was a good solution that worked for me and answered most of my needs. But it was becoming rather long in the tooth (almost two years now) and is, it seems, no longer [...]
Cool ! Easing phantom limb pain using Virtual Reality
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006This seems to be a great way for amputees to ease their phantom limb pain :
The research has focused on a small group of patients who had lost a limb between one and 40 years ago. Two were upper limb amputees and two had lost parts of their legs. They all used the virtual world [...]
Aaaah - Excellent Cat piccies
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Somebody has collected some cat photos and annoted them.
A very good laugh indeed, highly recommended !!
Tips for forget-full people (aka cheese-hole brains)
Friday, September 29th, 2006(I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but I keep forgetting it )
Have you ever thought of something that you needed to do as soon as you finish your current business, then promptly forgot about it only to recall it again when it is impractical to do it (like, for [...]
One Stop Shopping for DNS Stuff « Lorelle on WordPress
Friday, September 29th, 2006Lorelle writes some great qualilty bloggins (and the sheer quantity of it suggests she doesn’t sleep!).
I found a link on her site: One Stop Shopping for DNS Stuff that references a page for all your dns lookup needs.
So noted.
How Windows Mobile 5 gets developed
Thursday, September 14th, 2006The Windows Mobile Team Blog is a great resource, I’ve found it very useful on occasion to get a glimpse into the developers mind.
In his “I’m just a feature” article, Mike Calligero explains what it takes for a feature request to get into a new Windows Mobile 5 build.
[If you are interested in knowing more [...]
What is a manager ?
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006I’m reading the Hackers Diet, and apart from being a free online weight loss book, it’s also chockfull of references and insights to other issues, some of which are pretty usefull for everybody.
Coming from one of the founders of Autodesk (John Walker) this is not suprising. The man has oodles and bags full of experience [...]
General Hornball
Monday, July 24th, 2006Get yourself a new name : use the porn name generator !
What’s on your Ipod ?
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Found via Vowe : Usage statistics on the play usage of ipods.
Very interesting, and I tend to agree with both volker and Duke : the current tools are not adequate enough to let you discover all of your music in a large music collection, and when you are mobile, most of the time you only [...]
Grumpy Gamer
Friday, February 3rd, 2006Grumpy Gamer has a nice article about copy protection, as well as a solution to the problem
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