Posts filed under the 'Blog' category


Slide menu

You may have noticed. Or quite possibly, not. I won’t hold it against you; it is a bit nerdy. The thing is, I’ve revamped my blog so that the “ancillary” stuff is now hidden behind a “hamburger menu” over there on the left. Click the icon (it’s known in the trade as a “hamburger”) – or, if you are on a tablet or phone, touch it – and the extra stuff about me, the site, and other information slides in, pushing the normal blog content over to the right. This is my first tentative step to being “responsive”, at least in the web sense. The rest of the responsiveness will come later, when I change how posts are rendered in the browser. […]

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Using server-side MarkDown for comments

Nearly four years ago now, I “implemented” MarkDown for the comments here on my blog. At the time, Graffiti CMS (the blog engine I use) was being fairly regularly updated and I didn’t want to change my server-side code unnecessarily. I’d already run into merge issues in the past with new fixes from the CodePlex repository. […]

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Best supporting actor in a comedy?

Holy crap. […]

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Back in the day: a PC Card adapter for USB 2.0

Time for a quick giggle as I look at some old hardware I used to use, some 14 years ago, before I take it off to recycling. This past weekend, in a box at the back of the cupboard, I found this: […]

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Another chapter from the “Don’t be clever” coding style

A short and quick example of some baffling coding today. It so happens this past weekend I was updating some HTML and CSS and JavaScript on this site. One of the JavaScript source files (luckily not written by me) had this: […]

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Installing Yosemite like a pro

Way back when, I bought a black MacBook and an iPod Touch. I was – har, har – going to learn how to write Objective-C and earn millions selling apps. You know the kind of thing: […]

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The Talented Mr Steve

So this happened… […]

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Cloud, cloud, everywhere

So I got an iPhone 6 the other day. Bully for me, I can hear you say, but this isn’t about that. It’s about the fact that Apple, in preparation for iOS 8, changed the limits and functionality on their cloud storage offering, iCloud. With all the iOS devices in the house, a while back I had to pay for extra storage to enable backups for them all. That storage was just upgraded at no extra cost to 20GB. Time, I thought to myself, to check on all the cloud storage subscriptions I actually have and, presumably, use. […]

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Saying goodbye to Eurydice

A couple of weeks ago, just before we disappeared off on vacation, Eury crashed. Before you start imagining car wrecks and the like, let me explain that Eury was our oldest cat. He was 18 years and 4 months old, which, for a cat, is way up there in terms of age. And by crashed I mean that, finally, all of his ailments – and let me tell you this cat had them all, pretty much – caught up with him and there was nothing more we could do. […]

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Restoring old negatives: the bad and the not quite so bad.

As hinted a couple of blog posts ago (From ‘57 to 57), I’ve been resurrecting a stash of old film negatives from those halcyon days when I first started learning about photography after I’d bought an SLR. And by “resurrecting” I mean separating them from the stuck-together block some of them had become. A couple of people have asked me what I did, so a quick post is in order. […]

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