I've decided to retire this blog — I don't really see myself updating it any time soon, and haven't for over two years anyway. I intend to leave the content on-line for the forseeable future, but have converted it to a static site. As a result, dynamic things like search and comments aren't really going to work.

You can find me on Twitter or on Google+ if you like. Alternatively, I'm usually on IRC as LawnGnome on Freenode.

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Archive for the 'Tech Geekery' Category

Fuck!

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Apparently PHP developers swear more than other language users. I’m not particularly surprised by that, but I am surprised that C++ was as low as fourth. Seriously, how many times can you overload each keyword and operator anyway?

Now excuse me while I go cut a blue streak on some PHP.

Sometimes, I Hate My Job

Monday, December 11th, 2006

IE6 running on Ubuntu Edgy AMD64

(Thanks to napsilan on Ubuntu Forums for the Wine package and IEs4Linux 2.5 beta 1 for installing IE 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 packages. No thanks to Microsoft for producing such a lousy Web browser that I still have to test compatibility with.)

Laughing, Not Crying (Honest)

Monday, November 20th, 2006

http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/

I have read the XML Schema specification and felt as though I understood it. Read into that (and my mental state) what you will.

My Favourite IDE Ever

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

ERROR: null
I’m taking this blatant failure by Netbeans’ installer as further proof that Vim is all the IDE I need.

Send Pocket Protectors

Friday, October 20th, 2006

So, my PEAR account request has been approved. My descent into furry-toothed geekdom continues.

Eeeeexcellent.