Blog Archive 2012 Making HTTP client calls with Finagle Dec 15 2012 Write code like you mean it Jul 07 2012 2011 Don’t bother with that degree, say IT pros Oct 02 2011 Always give credit where credit is due Jul 03 2011 Git: Squashing commits without merging a thing Jul 02 2011 Making Qt Webkit and macdeployqt work Jun 17 2011 Moved domains for the blog May 29 2011 TweetDeck joins the Twitter flock May 26 2011 Be careful what you throwaway… May 14 2011 Hackday - Native TweetDeck May 11 2011 Grrr I broke the short URL link Apr 29 2011 TechCrunch give TweetDeck for iOS a ‘fly’ Apr 29 2011 PS3 - It Only Does Identity Theft Apr 28 2011 Windows Update Fail Apr 28 2011 WTB Photos in the iPhone Simulator? Apr 20 2011 Funny cartoon mocks 3DS refund row reports Apr 09 2011 Dropbox authentication: insecure by design Apr 08 2011 PAYG Sim Cards with data the world over Apr 06 2011 Browser Power Consumption Mar 30 2011 Color gets $41m Investment… Mar 25 2011 BT, TalkTalk in court seeking axe for Digital Economy Act Mar 23 2011 Staying flashless with Firefox 4 Mar 22 2011 (Subbed) Nuclear Boy うんち・おならで例える原発解説 Mar 21 2011 Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS Mar 15 2011 Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It Mar 15 2011 Reply to Comments from Email on Github Mar 15 2011 Japan quake effects length of day and GPS coordinates Mar 14 2011 Behind the Splash Screen (Photoshop) Mar 14 2011 Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors Mar 14 2011 The 960 Grid System Made Easy Mar 14 2011 Japan Earthquake: before and after Mar 13 2011 Making git diff highlight whitespace issues Feb 08 2011 Macbook Air Colour Profile Feb 06 2011 New job! Awesomes Feb 06 2011 Ol’ Grumpy’s guide to player reeducation Jan 03 2011 2010 Welcome Tube Droid to your Android Phone Dec 28 2010 Fabric and ssh-agent (aka. Running GIT in Fabric) Nov 09 2010 Picked up a MacBook Air Oct 30 2010 Changing to Orange (UK) on the Nexus One Oct 17 2010 This week it’s back to normal stuff Sep 18 2010 This week there’s been lots of iPhone Sep 04 2010 This week there’s been a lot of Node.js… Aug 29 2010 This week… Aug 22 2010 This week… there was lot’s of Android Aug 14 2010 Google Voice Commands, Rooted Android Phones and the UK Aug 13 2010 This week… Aug 07 2010 This week… Jul 31 2010 This week… Jul 24 2010 Darth Vader calls up Apple about his iPhone 4G Jul 23 2010 Bye bye Quakenet Jul 18 2010 This week… Jul 17 2010 The continuation of the Vodafone frustrations Jul 16 2010 Vodafone scare tactics with Mobile Data Jul 14 2010 What is Apple being so defensive about…? Jul 14 2010 This week… Jul 10 2010 This week… Jul 03 2010 Being stuck in hospital Jul 02 2010 This week… Jun 26 2010 iOS 4 is a “Told you so” OS Jun 22 2010 The Android phone is for… Jun 05 2010 Apple’s HTML5 demo page - but not in Chrome Jun 04 2010 QtScriptGenerator and QFile Jun 03 2010 Smart designer exports dumb pictures of text Jun 03 2010 Google ditches Windows on security concerns Jun 01 2010 My take on the iPad May 31 2010 Django, PayPal and the NVP API May 30 2010 Using styles in word processing: Apple’s Pages vs. Microsoft Word May 30 2010 Green Man Gaming Launched - One week on May 16 2010 More Tube Status malarky May 04 2010 Green Man Gaming May 01 2010 Tube Status App broke - but now it’s fixed! Apr 28 2010 Sony admits the PS3 security is broken Mar 29 2010 VAT Bill for the Nexus One Mar 27 2010 Meeting the local Conservative bunch Mar 26 2010 OSX and the 64-bit Kernel Mar 25 2010 Facebook offers Jabber, MSN redundant? Feb 14 2010 GameHounds Podcast #97 Feb 09 2010 DLR Status now available on Tube Notify Jan 24 2010 Green Man Gaming news hits the web (Day 2.5) Jan 23 2010 Green Man Gaming news hits the web (Day 1) Jan 21 2010 Old Ironforge (in WoW 3.3) Jan 17 2010 2009 Lawsuit alleges Palm Pre violates GPL Dec 07 2009 D3D Screenshots with Anti-Aliasing… quickly Nov 02 2009 Apple Opens Up In App Purchasing for Free Apps Oct 16 2009 Getting a user’s phone number on the iPhone Sep 30 2009 VMware Fusion 2.x and booting USB Memory Sticks Sep 26 2009 iPhone 3GS - Twice the speed - Half the quality Sep 12 2009 Started testing new Tube Notify version Sep 09 2009 Updated Tube Notify server side code Sep 06 2009 Well surprise surprise - when an App is free - people download! Sep 05 2009 Securing PHP against r57shell and the like Sep 03 2009 Colloquy on Snow Leopard - Growl Issues Sep 02 2009 Tube Notify hits the iPhone App Store Aug 17 2009 AVG, Windows 7 and a Netbook Aug 09 2009 Windows 7 and the Shake Gesture Aug 08 2009 Badly scripted customer service is bad Aug 02 2009 Tube Notify Aug 01 2009 Push on the iPhone Jul 14 2009 EVE: Billions stolen in online robbery Jul 03 2009 Is Pirate Bay the new Napster? Jun 30 2009 Open Solaris 2009.6 CD Jun 28 2009 Visual C++ Runtime Hell Jun 23 2009 The mix up with tickets and Joyent Jun 17 2009 New 13” and 15” MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface Jun 15 2009 First UK swine flu patient death Jun 15 2009 Disabled Twitter Updates on Blog Jun 14 2009 PSP Go is the talk of E3 opening Jun 01 2009 Internet Explorer 8 is out - Microsoft fails at QA… Mar 19 2009 Visa yanks security creds for payment card processing pair Mar 14 2009 Government attacks ‘deadly’ games Mar 08 2009 Digital Game Distribution Failure Mar 07 2009 Amazon.com’s Trade-In Store Launches Mar 06 2009 d3dx - Not that great? Mar 06 2009 Playmobil Security Check Point Jan 09 2009 Is it any wonder the world is infested with spam? Jan 03 2009 2008 The Wowhead Christmas Wallpaper Dec 24 2008 Unibody Macbook Pro constantly waking up Dec 21 2008 How Warcraft reigned supreme in 2008 Dec 18 2008 CRY vs. DRY Dec 17 2008 Apple Bluetooth Keyboard under Vista Nov 29 2008 X-ray Gaming Nov 10 2008 The blog - It’s moved! Again! Oct 19 2008 Mus domesticus (Rodent Mice) Oct 08 2008 Big table and changing indexes Sep 29 2008 The importance of tabs Sep 27 2008 pkgsrc and OpenSolaris 2008.05 - made easy Sep 12 2008 OpenSolaris 2008.05 finally works properly on HP Proliant ML115 G5 Sep 12 2008 Not so Genius iTunes Sep 10 2008 Debugging SMTP Sep 09 2008 Be* Mixes Toolbar Sep 01 2008 Postgres Replication with Slony on Solaris Aug 28 2008 Apple iPhone 2G advert banned Aug 27 2008 WARNING: Time-of-day chip unresponsive; dead batteries? Aug 26 2008 Phone Stuck on ‘Setup new iPhone’ Aug 26 2008 Adding disks in ESXi to OpenSolaris Aug 17 2008 HP Proliant ML115 G5 Aug 15 2008 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Aug 12 2008 Good video demo of VirtualBox Jul 31 2008 The day the spacebar died… Jul 26 2008 Replaced Battery Jul 15 2008 Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Censorship Jun 30 2008 Calibrating a laptop battery Jun 22 2008 Update OpenSolaris 2008.5 and find you can’t boot Jun 21 2008 I got married! Jun 19 2008 The 25 Year Old UNIX Bug May 11 2008 ACPI on Open Solaris May 05 2008 Open Solaris 2008.5 is out May 05 2008 New Facebook Messenger Apr 23 2008 Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) Apr 23 2008 From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user’s conversion to Mac OS X Apr 22 2008 Meet the Scout Apr 19 2008 Formula One to return to BBC TV Mar 20 2008 Blue LEDs To Reset Tired Truckers’ Body Clocks Mar 20 2008 2007 Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard Nov 06 2007 Where do they get my CV from? Nov 01 2007 Safari is not ready Oct 30 2007 DTrace with Postgres on OSX Oct 26 2007 DTrace support for Ruby pre-compiled into Leopard Oct 25 2007 ginstall fails in MacPorts on Leopard Oct 25 2007 DTrace with PHP on OSX Oct 24 2007 DTrace in Scripted Languages Oct 23 2007 iPhone unlocked Aug 26 2007 Facebook Source Code Leaked Aug 12 2007 The Steam Community Now Live Aug 07 2007 id and Valve May Be Violating GPL Aug 05 2007 Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification Aug 01 2007 US H1-B for giving training!? Jul 30 2007 KisMAC Development Ends Jul 29 2007 devotii & fnatic launch ‘Game Idol’ Jul 05 2007 iPhone not supported on 64-bit Vista Jul 01 2007 Data Leaks From Private Facebook Users Profiles Jun 27 2007 Couple breach Downing St security Jun 10 2007 Maxis abandons SimCity 5 Jun 07 2007 Revealed: why the Japanese hate the 360 May 21 2007 Hacked XBOX 360s banned from Live May 18 2007 Blizzard Kills Their Own WoW Tournament May 16 2007 SOE and Vanguard May 15 2007 Brad McQuaid Abandoned Vanguard May 15 2007 Poor Everquest 1 / Vanguard Team May 15 2007 Closing Lord of the Rings Online May 14 2007 Virgin Media “Throttling” users May 08 2007 Starcraft MMO? No way. Blizzard DENIES any new MMO. May 06 2007 EverQuest II - Producer’s Letter, May 2007 May 04 2007 Children started to draw, artists continued May 03 2007 A set of numbers to end Digg? May 02 2007 Update on the future of Sigil and Vanguard May 02 2007 The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ : Patch notes May 02 2007 Vista in death moment Jan 13 2007 2006 Gamecube Games on the Wii Dec 14 2006 Got my Wii! Dec 08 2006 The joys of blog Dec 07 2006 Say No to 0870 Oct 06 2006 MySQL ate my hamster! Sep 10 2006