2008

Jul

Catmobile: I arrive home, reverse up the drive and my cat...

A tutorial for good typography in InDesign - Setting up a...

Monsters vs Aliens

has been wondering why his shoulders are sore. Then realised it was probably due to trying (&...

is screaming at these clunky stupid Zend Framework form decorators.

is liking the newspaper-esque layout on http://tinyurl.com/6f4kch

thought Dragons’ Den was quite good, with a couple from my hometown on it. But what was with...

is going to watch the new series of Dragon’s Den.

wonders what Pownce’s decision was not to go UTF8 from the start?

mark all as read in @netvibes is a fun game. Not.

is looking at the new Facebook design. First initial split second reation - rounded corners and...

is wondering what identi.ca brings over twitter. And why should I be bothered to move?

still can’t see the new Facebook design. Tried a week ago and still not working. grrr

is being dumped on testing. Fun fun fun!

Wants to know if anyone has a Monkey Assassin? I want a monochrome one, but the Crazy 88 one looks...

thinks his former colleagues will be shocked that I haven’t had a packet of crisps so far this...

thinks that the first 48 seconds of http://tinyurl.com/5jdqxb is awe-some.

WOW. Just tried Zend Framework 1.6 and it has lost all IDs on forms. Does this project have ANY...

Last Exit to Nowhere

A close-up of an interesting Blade Runner Poster by...

Cooler Business Cards

is off to see Wall*E.

make sure you watch @drhorrible before tomorrow for free! Act 3 is now available.

fears he will never experience The Dark Knight on IMAX, nearest ones are 100miles / 2hours away...

haha, just watched the first Dr. Horrible short. Brilliant.

Another Kubrick movie I haven’t seen is on tonight; Lolita. And although it starts at the...

is off to my second home aka the vets

if Aronofsky does a RoboCop reboot, well I don’t know. I think it could be very very, erm,...

is getting extremely annoyed with the clunkyness of Zend Framework.

August sees the 80GB PS3 and September the PlayTV for said PS3… my birthday is in September...

in more PS3 news. Gran Turismo 5 may not be released until as late as 2010. WHAT?!

is getting annoyed that (Netvibes only?) JavaScript generated dialog boxes default to OK on Windows...

continuing the last.fm rant - some features are great, like the multiple playlists, but damn the...

just skimmed over the comments about the new last.fm launch. Most seem to reflect those of all the...

oh shit, the new last.fm seems to have broken the chains of the beta. I say seems because I...

Awesome. 404 page on css for build.last.fm. The widgets fails to integrate with the new design too....

is going to have to stop looking at last.fm as it’s just annoying me. Nothing is consistent...

is poking around the new last.fm website a little more. Why is everything clean lines, but the...

hopes @BenWard’s tweet wasn’t directed at me. I can’t understand what people...

talking of last.fm again, where are my paid features, such as the ability to see who recently viewed...

has a new blog post up - http://tinyurl.com/5dalcl

has just been looking at the last.fm redesign again. Still very disappointed. Going to sleep on it.

is really pissed off with More4 and their Kubrick season. What’s the point if all the movies...

is attacking with php.net/pow

knows this is old-school, but is wondering where he can get a mouse mat… relatively large and...

watched Revolver and, like last time, is thinking WTF. WTF x 3 infact.

is wondering what to watch this evening.

is laughing at my cat getting confused and pawing the speakers as I play cat meowing clips from...

yet again I am unable to comprehend the lack of consideration people have. Why the would you put my...

is reminding people that the More4 Kubrick season starts tonight at 10pm with “Boxes”...

Google Mail is ‘still working’…

is getting annoyed with Google Mail

still hasn’t got his surprise from @oneblackbear nor a CD he ordered a month ago. Looks like...

is knackered even after a relatively early night and not happy.

wow, Into the Wild is beautiful, lonely, inspirational, hopeful and depressing all together.

is watching “Into The Wild”

laptop is really starting to fucking annoy me. Just here browsing the web and it’s emitting a...

is wondering whether there are any news readers with beards.

is leaving the computer to get ready and watch Top Gear.

was very disappointed with todays @multipack meeting turn out. Turning back into old times.

is @multipack meeting in Birmingham talking Opera & Accessibility with Bruce.

mmm, manufacturer dealership has been bugging me for my MOT, now is offering it for free.. I wonder...

is totally knackered and is grabbing an early night.

remember that he saw someone in town today wearing a DiggNation tshirt…

could do with a nap

Enables you to print to your Firebug Console...

is going to watch Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

is installing Billings.

is wondering what the solid block of colour is that appears on some peoples tweets. Looking like a...

is loving routes in PHP frameworks.

can’t believe the commute. Stafford is bad at the best of times, but closing a main road into...

http://currentconfig.com/archives/000083.html — I love the internet!

Spot the Cat: Mikey getting in the way…

Spot the Cat: Mikey getting in the way…

Spot the Cat: Mikey getting in the way…

really enjoyed Escape from the Planet of the Apes.

have preordered [Rec] which I can’t wait to watch!

is not happy. His fifteen minute commute took forty-five.

That’s it. Enough. I can’t work on Vista any more.

Is being forced to work on Windows Vista. What the hell is up with the auto-start blocking and...

is impressed, although annoyed, that my cat managed to move a relatively full bin which was next to...

ouch. My bank account has dropped £2000 in seven days!

really enjoyed and would recommend the movie ‘Rescue Dawn’.

was suitably impressed with the original Planet of the Apes.

thought that Gus Van Sant’s Elephant is a beautiful movie.

Mikey relaxing: Trying to rest up after a £500 week at the...

Mikey relaxing: Trying to rest up after a £500 week at the...

Mikey relaxing: Trying to rest up after a £500 week at the...

seeing character encoding issues on large sites, such as Radio Times, make me smile and feel better...

what browsers have issue with UTF8? I’ve got a payment gateway saying they only use ISO8859-1...

is back with his cat, and £460 lighter.

is off to get his car fixed.

is off out for a marathon session at the cinema, starting with Hancock.

is rocking at his newly setup home work area - http://www.flickr.com/photos/trovster/2632921895/

Working From Home: MacbookPro is connected to the monitor on...

has finished building Ikea things. Off to see Wanted in a minute.

Awesome The Dark Knight poster. The marketing for this movie...

Second thing needed for Firefox. With the GrApple theme installed, the ability to change the...

needs two things for Firefox please. Firstly, tabbed download window, previously achieved with the...

wished Flickr had “add as inspiration” contact type instead of just Friends/Family....

is off to the Ikea

is raining and my washing is out on the line. Can I be bothered to bring it in?

cat is staying over at the vets. Something about trouble with liver.

has turned off Spaces, unless anyone knows of a cool way to have it work with multiple monitors. Aka...

is in need of a USB hub; any recommendations?

is really enjoying ‘Just Surrender’.

is hemorrhaging money at the moment. Cat is still not well and in the vets for the second day....

Jun

hello internets; what do you recommend for time-tracking & project management, which works over...

is back from the vets with a less poorly, but still not great cat :(

needs to watch two movies tomorrow to make it 30 out of 30. I think Wanted and The Incredible Hulk...

is going to watch a bit of the football, interrupted by Top Gear, and followed by football.

has removed the del.icio.us Firefox extension because it has stolen ctrl+shift+s and it won’t...

well, it seems car sales (wo)men have lost their abilities. If I walked in with a wade of cash,...

has finished a three-year segment of his life. The next starts 7th July.

is looking at the last.fm/api

just because amends are easily to say doesn’t mean they are magically as easy to make.

is entering his final few hours, after over three years of working for Creation

has launched the full Geek in the Park 2008 website, with details about the speakers. Check it out...

James Bond’s Paperback Covers via Design You Trust

fixed his Sky+ box thanks to the internet.

has eaten all his sandwiches already…

Boba Fett bust artwork, by Tom Whalen

Star Wars: A New Hope poster by Tom Whalen.

has a cleaner car. Not perfect but infinitely better than before. No really!

should stop dicking around on the internet and actually wash his car. That’s it, off to wash...

new Less Than Jake album!

Full Metal Jacket, frame by frame. Stilled Films project by...

is unbelievably pissed off with his MacBook Pro. It can not send both audio and visual to my TV...

wishes people would stop talking about how great Wall*E is, until it’s actually released! I...

has started to find twitter useless, due to Twitterific never receiving messages any more.

I love pixel from Florent Solt

is thinking Feedly looks very nice indeed.

yay, CuteMenus for FF3 :D

“Stare at the monitor all day, then go home and stare...

Online by Shaz Madani.

is shocked that filling up his tiny 106 cost £40.

Comic Sans the Move

feels like crap.

ah, “Fight for Kisses” is a cool animation.

Fight for Kisses

recommends no one EVER work with Protx. They’re a bunch of stupid idiots.

just laughing at my cat trying to attack Spore creatures!

“Some were boring: linksys, NETGEAR, default. I was always...”
— Lev Grossman Confessions of a...

“So the cornerstone is the developer, not the designer. If...”
— Steve Smith - The...

Broken laptop: Thankfully, this isn’t mine. It’s...

Cool Star Wars manga.

is off to see the English remake of Funny Games. Can’t wait!

is trying to find an animated video which features a baby and man fighting over the attention of the...