I often have MSN messenger running on my PC for a number of reasons:
It starts-up when the machine starts-up
Its refuses to let you close it unless you shut outlook, Internet explorer and about 20 other Microsoft programs
I occasionally use it to chat to people online
Friday lunchtime I was chatting to people on Messenger. Once I’d [...]
I upgraded the blogs on this site to Wordpress 2.0.7 the other day since some security flaws had been found in version 2.0.6. The upgrade was pretty painless and just involved replacing a few of the PHP files. Its good to see that how active the Wordpress development community, its impressive how fast they patched [...]
iRobot.com are selling a Vacuuming Robot called Roomba. This domesticated droid is fitted with sensors and will automatically figure out where needs cleaning.
The Roomba docks itself once it’s finished cleaning to recharge. Like ED 209 this robot cannot handle stairs however it does have a sensor built in so it doesn’t fall down them.
These robots [...]
Firstly I would like to confirm that despite rumours circulating around Ironbridge this is what I haven’t been doing for the past half a year:
Become a Buddhist Monk
Had a Sex change
Been training to be an astronaut
Been cryogenically frozen
What I have been doing is working for Bluefire systems on Phuser.com a new and innovative mobile/social networking [...]
I love fractals they are both scientific and beautiful at the same time!
For those of you that don’t know what Fractals are Mandelbrot the king of fractals defined them as this:
“a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced/size copy of the whole”
Sven [...]
I have updated this blog to use my modified version of the Binary News wordpress theme, hope you like it. This will be an intermediate look for the blog until I have time to write my own CSS, I thought it would be a good idea to move away from the default wordpress theme.
Ultimately I [...]
As Phevans suggested there was a problem with the widths on the columns. I have modified the style.css file, click here to download it. I also noticed that the paragraph spacing is a bit odd (you get the same width between paragraphs that you get between lines) so I have modified that too.
To install this [...]
Grrrhhhhh I’d been configuring this blog to use the rather nice Binary News Wordpress theme pictured below.
However just finished all my modifications (new header, colour scheme modifications, navigation changes, etc) opened the site up in IE and the main content renders below the links in the right hand bar, so its back to the default [...]
On Tuesday this week Mac Overlord Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone after months of speculation what the device would look like and how it would work. Now there’s no doubt that Apple with shift millions of these devices, Steve Jobs could announce a new product called the iTurd [1] and millions of Apple fanatics would [...]
I started running my person blog: Peteamania in Novemeber last year, so far I’ve enjoyed writing the blog and plan to continue. The problem I have is whenever I write a technically themed article many of my loyal fan (or Peteamaniacs as they like to be known) complain that its too geeky. Interesting the viewing [...]