January 19, 2010

CPAN on OSX

http://triopter.com/archive/how-to-install-perl-modules-on-mac-os-x-in-4-easy-steps/

December 16, 2009

Block those f*cking Youtube annotations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIuxWSlJUck

October 30, 2009

Get round Word document protection

Had to get round protection in a Word document recently. Found this trivial fix:

http://mediakey.dk/~cc/crack-or-recover-read-only-password-protected-word-document/

Why bother protecting it if it is that easy to crack honestly?

March 27, 2009

Cool shirts

Some very nice T-Shirts - http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/

February 17, 2009

14 myths of technical authoring

Interesting article : http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/06/26/myths-myths-myths-about-technical-writing/#more-1639

October 6, 2008

TV

Theater is life, cinema is art, television is furniture. - Anon

September 5, 2008

Stephen Fry on England

"This country is run by idiots. We know that because we sat next to them at school."

The man is a genius, and if you haven't listened to his podgrams then you've missed out.

August 27, 2008

Magnets

Amazing magnet shop - http://www.supermagnete.ch

August 25, 2008

Desktop Backgrounds

Ever on the lookout for fresh desktop background images I came across these recently:

http://www.mybestdesktops.com/

http://www.caedes.net/

Both examples of good, non-commercial, non-clutter sites where the default looks like one of those mobile phone ringtone ads in the back of a glossy magazine.

August 9, 2008

Prevent DS_Store files being created on remote volumes

Apple have written an article detailing how to stop .DS_Store files being created on remote volumes:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629