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New theme…

jonny — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:34:43 +0000

I’m in the process of updating my site, with a new design and a few other things, because I realised that the content on this site was getting wildly out of date! So in the the mean time i’ve moved … Continue reading →

Content aware fill in CS5

jonny — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:38:45 +0000

Ok, i realise this is everywhere at the moment, but seriously, wow!

Friday Links

jonny — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:56:59 +0000

There seems to be a trend popping up at the moment, in the same vein as twitters follow friday, that people suggest their favourite links/sites/videos of the week.

Time to jump on a band wagon me thinks…

Sites of the week:

Reads of the week:

Videos/funnies of the week:

Twitter follows:

Reckon that probably calls for a brew, laters.

mobile blogging

jonny — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:16:53 +0000

This may be my first post in nearly 6 months, ill rectify that soon! This is just a test of the blackberry wordpress app!

Naked CSS day!

jonny — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:35:49 +0000

Just for the fun of it, I’m playing along with naked CSS day 09!!

design back soon.

Update - All done now, that was fun…

Does crying wolf ever work out?

jonny — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:30:28 +0000

Simple Answer – no. For a while, at work we’ve been having a little bit of fun with one of the IT dudes with the old blue screen of death joke. “Arrrrgh my computers died… HELP!” etc etc. Thing is though, its never dead, we just think its funny to watch IT look at what is essentially a desktop wallpaper until they get mad and walk off, usually to hilarious consequences, see article a.

So, what happens when you get a genuine problem on your machine?

The answer isn’t surprising at all, suffice to say that computer still gets this error.

Outcome:- DON’T F*** with IT.

png fix with wordpress

jonny — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:34:50 +0000

So, WordPress 2.7′s out. Perfect time to update the ol’ site. “I know, while I’m at it, let’s make use of the old twin helix PNG ie6 htc fix, not used that much before. No way can it possibly be that hard.” Wrong.

Getting it working is pretty easy, but when it came to slotting it in the themes folder everything became a mystery.

I tried setting up a new parameter in wordpress to no avail, i could’ve just linked directly to it i guess, but i didn’t really wanna do that, so I went searching.

Turns out that the best way to get it to work in wordpress themes is to put it in the root of the wordpress folder, not the theme folder, along with the blank .gif file. Everything else then stays the same.

img, div, body,h1, p, a { behavior: url(/iepngfix.htc) }

Odd, but for some reason it didnt seem to like being in an inlude folder.

Spam goes religious

jonny — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:55:34 +0000

This quaint little wordpress blog doesn’t see the light of day much, but it does seem to find its way into the path of good ol’ friendly spammers.

I’m generally OK with spam, because my spam filters are working pretty well, but when you skim over the endless invites for blue medicine and blue websites, you find little gem’s like these, I’d let the spam through, if there was one single prayer on this website.

“These prayers help me to keep God in my life, especially with the many distractions I encounter”

“This website is very nice and colorful too. Its nice to have something to show others where you attend church and to show all the smiling people filled of the goodness of the Lord. You have a wonderful website here. May God rich bless you always..“

“I like this website. This website helped me with prayer learning. Good job. Thank you. Please provide more French prayers. Bye-bye.”

God bless you, one and all.

Music Challenge.

jonny — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:18:17 +0000

Who can honestly say they’ve listened to every single song in their itunes library? I don’t reckon I can, so I’ve set myself a rather daft challenge.

I’m going through the lot of my music, in alphabetical SONG order.

The rules I’ve set myself.

Its my work music only
During Work
NO SKIPPING.

As above, it is only the music on my work HDD, and i have got a lot more music at home, but i did recently copy my whole full ipod. here’s what itunes says at the bottom:

5978 Songs, 15.9 days, 27.18 GB

I’ll keep you posted how i get on.

UPDATE!

It’s over!!!! – only took 8 friggin months!

Firefox 3 hits the shelves

jonny — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:25:40 +0000

Well, not shelves exactly, but its arrived. Mozilla have tested the new firefox with everything they can throw at it and it’s been moved out of beta testing and its now available to download to everyone. They’re pretty conifident its gonna be the most downloaded thing on the interweb that they’ve got the guiness world record people in to get involved with firefox download day! pretty smart advertising ploy!

So what’s new?

More Secure – They’ve spent a lot of time, and probably effort, into increasing they’re already pretty secure browser, so there’s much less chance of being attacked!
One click bookmarking – Great if you bookmark A LOT, easy to tag and organise your bookmarks.
Smart Location Bar – a tool that works with your browser history to help you get to the right site quicker, sounds pretty basic, but its quite clever really, it can use content as well as addresses to work out where to go
Its a shed load faster – self explanitory but definatley worth a mention.

There’s much more but my fingers are starting to get tired.

One thing remains to be said though, if you use firefox a lot, for work and what not, its probably best to hold off on the downloads until all the add-ons have been updated, otherwise you might be in a tad of bother!