August 2006

Get your ipod running…

August 31, 2006

Ever since Apple teamed up with Nike, in what can only be described as a huge marketing gimmick, to produce the imaginatively titled “ipod+nike” I’ve been contemplating purchasing the system. I’m not a huge running nut but I do around 20 miles a week (4 sessions of 5 miles) on our treadmill. Now and again [...]

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SpamSieve

August 30, 2006

Once upon a time I thought it would be a great idea to include my email address at the top of each IPB source code file. Fast forward three years and three million spam emails and I’m glad I removed it a few years ago. Despite having my IPS emails filtered via the corporate spam [...]

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Snakes on a Plane!

August 23, 2006

I’m sure you’ve heard of Snakes on a Plane as it’s been something of an internet phenomenon so much so that five days of additional shooting were ordered after the film wrapped to include dialogue proposed by fans.We (Debbie, Debbie’s sister and I) went to see this over the weekend and we weren’t disappointed. For [...]

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k800i

August 23, 2006

I picked up a Sony Ericsson k800i a week ago and I’m really impressed with it.The biggest draw is the 3.2 megapixel camera which comes with autofocus, image stabilizer and a built in xenon flash. It’s capable of taking some pretty sharp pictures. It actually gives medium to low end digital cameras a run for [...]

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Regular Javascript Expressions

August 3, 2006

So I had a fun hour this morning.If you’re unaware, any javascript that’s returned via ajax (XMLHttpRequest) which is embedded in the returned text isn’t executed which is a bit of a problem.To ‘fix’ this, I wrote a little function in the ajax class that takes the returned text, finds any javascript blocks and eval()s [...]

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