Jonny Wright

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.

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!

Time for another top 5. This time, I’m going down the music root, so I’m doing a run down of my favourite songs of the year, so far that is, seen as it’s only april.

drum roll…

• Foals - Cassius
• Born Ruffians - Hummingbird
• Lightspeed Champion - Tell me what its worth
• MGMT - Time to pretend
• Black Kids - I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You

I’ve recently been writing a news ticker at work in flash, which works really nice, it links news stories to parts of the site that are worth a look at. That’s all great, but what if you want to stay on the page you’re on? With Flash the answers usually simple, “change the target to ‘_blank’ and you’re on your way. But if you actually want it to act like a normal part of the website, you need another answer.

Firefox and ie7 let you use the tabbing system for this, click ctrl while you click and it opens in a new tab, but how would you go about it in flash?

Here’s my function to fix it:-


function ctrlClick(link)
{
var window = "_self";
if(Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL))
{
window = "_blank";
}
getURL(link, window);
}


That way you’re sorted. click ctrl when you click the link, it opens in a new window/tab, click it normally, it stays in the same window, job done.

So i was doing a php email form the other day for ilikehammocks.

I was sure i wrote the code right but it wouldn’t work. For the life of me i couldn’t figure out why.

Enter google.

I went wandering round google until i was lost in the realms of uber geeks. It turns out that fasthosts (my domain provider) forgot about the email function in php, and to get around it i had to add this to the first line of my code:

ini_set("sendmail_from", " email@somedomain.com");

score!

For some reason fasthosts like to dismiss the simple things, so if you’re having a problem with getting emails to actually go anywhere, like i was, this seems to be the way to fix it. All the rest of my code could then stay the same but it then knew what it was doing in terms of carrying out the send function.

I dont think any more explanation is necessary, but get in touch if you need more help.

Have you ever been sitting in a chair thinking, I wish this was a hammock? no? well you should have!

It’s a site, it’s a laugh, it’s done, it’s live.

go there. now.

iLikeHammocks

I quite like the idea of this top 5 malarce, so I’m gonna make a series of it. Here I present my top 5 firefox add-ons, with hilarious consequences.

1. Firebug.
   • Useful for designers and developers everywhere, live css editing is more useful than a cup of tea first thing in the morning and twice as productive.
2. Web developers tool bar.
   • This add-on does have a lot of the advantage of firebug, although some aren’t as good, but this little blighter has extra additions like the ruler, and the tag displayer.
3. ColorZilla.
   • This is great when you see a colour used on a site you might want to use elsewhere, has a full pallette and everything. Better than an artists elbow.
4. Site Indicator.
   • Shameless plug of a mates application, great if you work in an environment that uses local directories and live ones, saves a lot of panic time. I’ll have a brew for this vince.
5. Dummy lipsum.
   • This one’s just snuck on my list, generates lorem ipsum text from firefox, and can add text directly into text areas for you, nice.

Carrying on from a work conversation i present my top 5 comedies.

1. The Mighty Boosh.
2. Spaced.
3. Scrubs.
4. Early Red Dwarf.
5. Blackadder.

Discuss!!

so we moved into the flat this weekend, eventually.

After a trip to leeds and back, some shoddy estate-agenting and carpet cleaning, 8 million bags of clothes, 3 lots of misbehaving flat pack furniture, 9 million dvd’s, a missing telly remote and a basic shop coming to 60 odd quid…

… we moved in.

photo’s of our new flat are on my flickr page.

And we allllll know what that means - presents, turkey, snow, jolly fat men in red suits, re-runs, and mince pies.

Nope!

Well, yeah, Ok but really its all about the TV ads. Christmas telly ads rock, not because they light up my life with christmas cheer, they’re just pretty, and it keeps ugly people off the screen (aside from kerry katona that is).

Highlights so far, the M+S ad, and the old retro coke ad, christmas wouldnt be christmas without it!!