Yearly Archives: 2005

iPod nano- Holly crap

Apple (UK and Ireland) – iPod nano
Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at £139 (UK) or €209 (Ireland) including VAT, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. So small, it will take your music places you never dreamed of.

My christmas list is definintely having this…. sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. I had no idae this was coming

Nya’ lans (New Orleans)

It saddens me to see what is happening in New orelans. I visited there in 2000 and it was one of the most beautiful, most exciting cities I have ver been to. The food, the drink, the history the French quarter, the ord worldy hotel we stayed in, the zoo, the streetcars , the muffelettas, the casino and the Mississippi.

A truly wonderful place and it’s sad to think that it will be a long time untill anybody else gets to experience the same. Regardless of the looting an dall the gangland crap we are hearing about………… New Orelans is a fabulous city and it is sad to see it in that state.

The red cross seem to be doing a great job helping the people still in the disaster stricken region.. please give generously

XForms for HTML Authors

XForms for HTML Authors
XForms is the new markup language for forms on the Web. This document is a quick introduction to XForms for HTML Forms authors. It shows you how to convert existing forms to their XForms equivalent. It assumes knowledge of HTML Forms, so is not a beginner’s tutorial. Although there is mention of additional facilities of XForms beyond those possible in HTML Forms (marked with an asterisk on the headings), it is not a full tutorial on all features of XForms.

I think it’d be foolish if we didn’t at least read about xforms, I’ve been looking at GUI tookits lately too, like WxWidgets, XUL, XAML, TKinter and a few others- if anyone knows of any other gui toolkits preferably with a gecko widget let me know.

Python Bookmarks

While playing around with Python over the last few days I came up with my online bookmarks. As we use python alot in work, I figure it was time I learn it properly. What i’ve written is a few python classes that parse the firefox bookmarks file (for some reason this file is not xml, not xhtml and not rdf.. just some shitty html, so parsing the file was a bitch), transforms it to xbel (bookmarks storage format) using xslt, Another class uploads the xbel to my server by ftp. The final class takes the xbel file and transforms it yet again (using xslt) to the final xhtml version. It’s a bit rusty still but I’ll give it another while and see if I can create a simple exe and then post it here.