Writings
8Sep2008
I arrived in Melbourne last week, for a three week stay keeping my lovely other half company away from Manila. I started a morning’s work in the apartment, only to find the internet crawling at dial-up speeds, so I quickly aimed for a nearby coffee shop. However when I opened the MacBook,...
2Sep2008
Just an awesome little hard disk reclamation utility, until Snow Leopard comes out at least. Things feel a bit snappier to load as well, although that’s probably just my mind. Favourite savings… Mail 289MB->25MB, Preview 70MB->9MB. Maybe I could get my life onto a MacBook Air?
2Sep2008
What with this and IE8 it’s time to party like it’s 1999. Can’t imagine Firefox will be massively chuffed given the vast amount of money they earn from Google. More browsers means more innovation in the browsing interface, a good thing.
22Aug2008
Whilst clearly an amazing technical achievement and utterly beautiful as a work of art, Wall-E left me a little disheartened. There are moments of joy and the character himself is appealing but it never gets off the ground as a tale.
The typical Pixar strength of story was jettisoned in favour of a simplistic, and heavy-handed, morality tale about technological dependance an the evils of corporate waste. The robot love story is the most effective part of the movie, despite only consisting of three words, if only the rest of the film was so successful.
6Aug2008
Really liked this article. Builders of websites that give endless options without already thinking through the problem, please take note.
29Jul2008

So should you.
25Jul2008
I’ve been a great fan of better searchable Ruby and Rails documentation, such as GotAPI and Railsbrain, and have taken to having a copy of the railsbrain and rubybrain docs locally served on my macbook (for those moments where I’m disconnected from the Internet). Plus the style used by the normal...
18Jul2008
A breathtaking performance from Ledger as the Joker, matched by Bale as Batman, amongst the all-star cast all bringing their considerable talents to bear on a big summer comic book movie. However, the silliness you might associate with a ‘tentpole’ movie is not part of the package, this is a tragedy on a grand scale.
Packed full of story and in-camera (as opposed to CGI) action the two and half hours whizzes past leaving you begging for another film the same length such is the engrossing world of Nolan’s Batman. A triumph.
10Jul2008
So. I took the link to the evil twin plugin for my attachment_fu hack down when I moved from Dreamhost, and never got it up anywhere else.
Until now! I’ve had a couple of questions about where it had gone, so I pulled my finger out. It’s on github so you can install…
script/plugin install...
8Jul2008
I don’t particularly love their browser, but I like the cut of their jib. Massive kudos for an organisation stepping up and providing this great resource, now all you need is universities to use it!
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