Yearly Archives: 2005

The office

I’ve been passed a meme by Joshuaink.

Picture’s of my office today

You can see all the images @ /wp-images/folder/theoffice

Side view of home office

An arty photo of my workspace (as arty as I get anyway)

The machines

20.1″ Dell LCD …. drrrroooooollll. Ebay ROCKS!!!

Da Server

My old PC brought back to life in the form of a file and web server.

The wonderful view

The view from my office in my new house. Note the new shed :).

General specifications
PC (Primary)
  • Windows XP Pro
  • 1GB Ram
  • 120GB split across 2 drives
  • DVD RW
  • ATI 9200 SE
iBook G4
  • OS X panther
  • 800mhz PowerPC G4
  • 384 MB Ram
  • 40GB full of pr0n
  • Bluetooth
  • Airport
  • Bluetooth Apple mouse
Server
  • Vector Linux
  • 600mhz PIII
  • 256 MB RDRAM
  • 60GB Hard Drive
Essential hardware
  • 4 port USB KVM
  • 2X Linksys WAP54G Access points for mega wireless coverage
  • Toshiba Libretto 100ct old skool micro laptop
  • 2 external drives totalling 250GB
  • Tower fan to keep me cool
Most wanted
  • New Digital Camera (Pentax Optio S5z)
  • G5 running OSX Server
Moving along

4 people whose workspace I would like to know more about:

rss2wml

rss2wml logoHave you ever been trying to browse your favourite news sites on your mobile device?

Was at absolute nightmare trying to navigate around and enter urls and usernames and passwords and all sorts?

If you answer yes to the 2 questions above… check out rss2wml (http://rss2wml.com). Admittedly I have just started development and there is nothing to try out but the idea is now up which will hopefully force me to actually develop the project. I have everything set up and ready to go so hopefully development will be smooth with quick releases.

Let me know if you think it is a worthwhile project or if not, why?

ps. I’m not a designer 🙂

Girl on Girl Hypo

If anybody saw big brother tonight… There was some mega girl on girl going on…

Gill was so distraught it brought on a diabetic hypo… hilarious (not the hypo.. the fact that it happened).

Liz McDonalds dress (Live 8)

A quick post before I hit the sack… Live 8 was absolutely amazing. I only watched from 6 o’clock onwards but it was awsome…. (One thing though, could someone please tell Mariah Carey to give Liz McDonald back her dress 🙂 )

Update: I just read Oxo’s post on Live 8, and just so there’s no ambiguity, I’m not politcal in any way but in my own head, and I was referring to the music and entertainment alone.

Gizmo VOIP

Finally a viable alternative to Skype.. http://www.gizmoproject.com/. There’s probably ton’s of VOIP clients but Skype and Gizmo seem like the only two to be aimed at the home user. I use SkypeOut all the time to call home to Ireland and now hopefully with some competition, the prices will drop even further.

I got a USB -> RJ11 Adaptor on ebay (http://www.yamamoto-group.co.uk/index.php?page=easyblue) which lets me use SkypeOut with my regular cordless phone. I also receive Skype calls on my phone too (I’ve only received one though 🙁 , and that was from a 14 year old Scottish guy who though t it was hilarious that his surname was Roche too).

Padding killed IE

While hammering away on a site, I wandered into IE world to do some testing and, like a spade to the face, IE crashed. It kept crashing and crashing. I did some intensive debugging, checking to see if it was: markup, the way the CSS was imported, positioning in the CSS, advanced CSS like h3+p, transparent pngs. None of these were causing the crash. I had narrowed it down to the CSS though so I began going through it chunk by chunk and testing. I got it down to one line:

[code lang=”css”]
div#content-sub fieldset {
background : transparent url(../images/box_tile.gif) 0 0 repeat-y;
border : 1px solid #fff;
padding: 0 20px;}
[/code]

What’s wrong with this… Fuck all I hear you say.

I then narrowed it down to the padding.

What’s wrong with the padding…. Fuck all I hear you say. I removed the padding and it works fine. So in conclusion, don’t use padding ever on anything ever and IE royally sucks ass.

Sadly I can’t link to the site as it’s still on the Dev server.