Archive for January, 2007

links for 2007-01-28
Sunday, January 28th, 2007

idproxy.net - use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID
use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID
(tags: fortorchbox)

Events and conferences - JigsawUK
List of events in the UK worth going to
(tags: events geek)

Oxford Geek Nights
Sunday, January 28th, 2007

A note to anyone in or around the Oxford area on Wednesday the 7th February, or even to those willing to travel …. The first Oxford Geek Night will be held at 8pm upstairs in Oxfordshire’s fine venue of “The Jericho Tavern”.
For more information of the event and directions, please see the official site

Oxford Geek [...]

One from the archive: resurrecting time_since()
Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Since the disastrous demise of my once dependable hosting company, I have lost a lot of data and subsequently broken permalinks to various entries of mine around the internets. Using the wonders of the Internet archive and the wayback machine I managed to ferret out one of my older posts that got a lot of [...]

links for 2007-01-25
Thursday, January 25th, 2007

How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!
I installed it, but where did my program go? - something I often find myself asking
(tags: install software ubuntu linux howto)

GIMP - Tutorials
I have found the gimp to be way more intuitive than Photoshop, definately plan to go through some of these tutorials though!
(tags: design graphics howto image photos reference [...]

links for 2007-01-24
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

SitePoint Blogs » Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007
REALLY bad news if you are forced to make HTML emails, if making them wasnt bad enough this will top it off
(tags: css development html images reference software webdesign web)

A Guide to CSS Support in Email - Campaign Monitor Blog
HTML email reference
(tags: development html reference [...]

links for 2007-01-23
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Tango Icon Gallery - Tango Desktop Project
Set of really pretty open source icons,
(tags: art community graphics icons image opensource reference tools)

famfamfam.com: Icons
more icons that are open source
(tags: graphics icons image tools)

timessquareBIOS.jpg (JPEG Image, 600×800 pixels) - Scaled (99%)
If you are going to mess up, do it BIG!
(tags: funny image)

Multimap API v1.1 - Documentation
Possible alternative to [...]

links for 2007-01-20
Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Adobe - CSS Advisor beta
Possibly useful to search if debugging is needed
(tags: debugging browser development programming reference web)

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine
"53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites."
(tags: development css design guide howto webdesign tutorial)

TechEBlog » Top 5 Photoshop Tutorials
plan … learn Photoshop (gimp [...]

links for 2007-01-19
Friday, January 19th, 2007

Fumbling Towards Geekdom: A 2006 productivity hot-or-not guide
review of how effective the various productivity tips of last year actually were
(tags: review guide howto)

I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Set smaller goals: impress friends, get girls, lose weight
I wish I was better at understanding money
(tags: howto finance)

Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer
This might be really [...]

Talking about the weather
Thursday, January 18th, 2007

I know being British it may be considered stereotypical to talk about the weather… but I’m going to anyway. The winds were so atrocious today that their effect on our ‘Great’ British train service meant that I had to miss Pub Standards! I was really looking forward to going too, but with the prospect of [...]

links for 2007-01-18
Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Web Developer’s Handbook | CSS, Web Development, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.
Possibly a useful list of stuff, definately a list of a lot of stuff
(tags: webdesign)

The Definitive Guide to Web Character Encoding [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]
“Character encoding. You may have heard of it, but what is it, and why should you care? What can happen [...]