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More virtual living

For reasons at worst trivial, I find myself in hospital overnight. Say what you like about the UK health service – all that matters to me is that the bedside telephone doubles up as an internet...

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Can MaxJet keep a skeptic happy?

I live near Guildford UK, and I need to get to Charlotte in North Carolina. Now, there’s a direct flight from Gatwork (45 mins away) to Charlotte. But it’s a bit pricey this late in the day. So we’re...

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Dallas Mavericks and out

Well, I forgot to mention it… but the MaxJet flight we got reseated on was the Dallas Maverick’s private jet. Hilariously, I was in “Ultra First Class” – which is preumably where the 7-foot+ basketball...

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More Than Just Us

I just discovered there is such a thing as a “social group for bloggers in Hindhead, Haslemere, Grayshott, Beacon Hill“.  - approximately 2 weeks before I leave the area to go and live abroad. So I...

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There’s no such things as a problem in Drupal…

….just modules you haven’t found yet

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Drupal, AJAX, Scriptaculous

Following my assertion that the only problems in Drupal are the ones you haven’t found modules for yet, I discover Drupal meets Scriptaculous Exactly what I need to let users define their own layouts...

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LUAS whitenoise

As the only passenger on this morning’s tram without headphones on, I enjoy a multi-track, second-order musical assault from everyone else’s. I wonder… How many distinct musical sources can a human ear...

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Bush hid the facts

If you are lucky enough to run Windows, open Notepad, type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes), and save the file. Open it back up again …indeed, the facts are hidden. (NB: I find this completely...

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When politics blows up the semantic web

- or - “Don’t vote for Hillary; it might break FreeBase!”

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Google Instant: 37 Golden Tickets

Google Instant provides results as you type. This is bound to keep SEO experts and marketing wonks awake at night trying to figure out what new user behavior it might engender. For one thing, there are...

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