Archive > September 2004

Anyone for G-Mail?

Well I got mine thanks to The Gir but if you still haven;t managed then you may want to try looking over at Spread Firefox.

You have to have a website sporting a Firefox button and you must not already have an account.

So get the best browser on the planet and a funky new mail account [...]

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Well any doubts I may have had are pretty much squished

I’ve been a little concerned by the sheer number of stupidly large storms / hurricanes that seem to be hitting Florida this year. These things are doing a load of damage and killing far too many people and yet the world at large has been unable to come up with an explanation for this definitively [...]

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Love and hate – my Mandrake Linux 10 stories

Hate – the fact that my Microsoft USB mouse crashes the install and the system at every oppouritunity
Love – that all I need is to use the USB – PS2 converter to solve the problem
Hate – I had ripped my system apart trying to find the hardware causing the install to crash
Love – the speed [...]

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Home early today

The past week seems to have zipped by in a mass rush of training days and work related goodness. We had another training session today – Project Management 101 – and so I got to leave a little early.

Hopefully I’ll have somethig worth reading posted tonight but I wouldn’t bank on it. There is a [...]

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So I’m in bed…

And a wanted to share a number of recent observations:

(these are maybe worthy of individual posts but most likely not… plus I’m tired, on the eve of a very big day and am enjoying a glass of scotch)

Eric Meyer raises 2 interseting points
Point one being how we take for granted the default styles that browsers [...]

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Mozilla Firefox – Just one step from first release

I’ve been holding off on recommending FireFox to my less techy friends on the basis that it is still pre release software. Yeah sure, even in this state it is more stable, faster and more secure than IE but I don’t recommend pre-release to anyone who doesn’t know what they are doing.

Well, the long wait [...]

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Looks like its curtains for Belle

You all know who I’m talking about right? Belle de Bloody Jour? The most famous hooker ever to post on a weblog?

Well she’s shutting up shop…

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PHPMailer – a very classy class

Just a quicky as I am swamped at the moment but I recently ran into a problem with my “other” webhost and sending email via PHP.

For those in the know there is a built in PHP function called mail() which handles very basic emails. It has some serious limitations though – no html email, no [...]

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It got hot again

Summer seems to have finally arrived in Jersey and is making up for what it missed by being oppressive and nasty. So I’m gonna sit down with and ice cold beer, a database schematic and Bullet Proof Monk. Problem is I can only concentrate on two things at once …

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How well do you know your mobile?

An article on the BBC website grabbed my attention last night. Basically those pesky safety campaigners are asking manufacturers of mobile phones to print the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of each model on the phone – kind of like the Tar / Nicotine breakdown you get on a pack of ciggies.
Now I really am not [...]

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