In which a quest to purchase a breadmaker unlocks the secret of the latest digital advances in home technology... In my lunch-hour I dutifully trot off into town to buy my wife a bread maker for her birthday. I wouldn't dream of buying her a kitchen appliance normally but in her own way, bless her, … Continue reading Adventures in Home Gadgetry
Month: May 2003
Reading To Some Purpose
...and that purpose is "Keep Leigh Away From The Computer". Getting a bit fed up with programming and web surfing recently, so I decided it was time to pick up my reading habit once more. Here's where my paper-surfing has been taking me. In case you're interested. Have recently finished: Gibson's Pattern Recognition: excellent as … Continue reading Reading To Some Purpose
Strange Banana
Further proof to myself that my design skills could easily be replaced by a small shell script: Strange Banana: computer-generated webpage design. I've been idly clicking through this for a couple of minutes and seen layouts that were quite reasonable. Better than I could have produced anyway, but that's not saying much really. Maybe someone … Continue reading Strange Banana
Ultrasound Scan Photos
Thought I'd share these photos with the world as I'm feeling pretty proud at the moment. We've just come back from the 20 week ultrasound scan of our new baby. The good news is that everything seems perfectly normal! In this photo you can see the babies face. Or rather I should say her face! … Continue reading Ultrasound Scan Photos
Refer a Friend to FOAF-a-Matic
Norm Walsh emailed me to note that the "refer a friend" link from the FOAF-a-Matic is broken. D'oh! It's pretty simple, so thought I'd jot it down here. Basically the javascript code will read three additional parameters in the URL: name -- your full name email -- your email seealso -- location of your FOAF … Continue reading Refer a Friend to FOAF-a-Matic
Autodiscovery Bookmarklet Generator
The Autodiscovery Bookmarklet Generator will generate Javascript bookmarklet code for autodiscovering metadata linked from an HTML document using the LINK tag. Thought it might be useful for folks wanting to glue various services together. This has had absolutely minimal testing (i.e. I've checked it against FOAF and RSS examples) so let me know if you … Continue reading Autodiscovery Bookmarklet Generator
Conferences On the Web
Edd Dumbill and Dave Beckett have set up a Chump bot to allow community coverage of WWW2003. This is an excellent idea, and will sure to be packed full of useful and interesting links. However one thing I'd like to see conference organisers do more of is to make the presentations available over the web … Continue reading Conferences On the Web
The JBoss Documentation Project. Why Doesn’t It Exist?
Has anyone considered starting a collaborative, open source JBoss documentation project? The current JBoss documentation is out of date. Even the "for fee" documentation is lagging behind the current release which is a pretty poor state of affairs anyway, but for a company thats trying to make money out of an open source project it … Continue reading The JBoss Documentation Project. Why Doesn’t It Exist?
Lost Boy 