A matter of fiction

Tabs and I just can't be together

2009-06-26T12:30:28Z

We need to talk. It's not me, it's you. You're just really busy at the moment. I'm just moving too fast. You need some space. Tabbed user interfaces are really meant for grouping collections of user-interactables into logically categorised, more ...

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Annoying software is annoying

2009-06-10T14:14:57Z

Specifically, I'm referring to Mozilla Firefox and it's incessant addon pestering, in various shapes and sizes. Ironically, the addons behaviour feels like the most bolted-on thing in Firefox. Firstly, short of the sky falling, nothing should pre...

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Cyberdyne goes to see the Wizard but forgot what to ask him for

2008-09-18T17:25:00Z

Colin recently wrote about this and although I was probably the person who lead him to write his post, I had no intentions of writing a post myself. However, after reading his post the reality of the situation struck me, as if I were a car strand...

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Cape Holiday

2007-07-13T10:22:21Z

I recently got back from my first holiday in several months, it felt really good! I spent a week in Cape Town and half a week in George. I've put some photos up on my Flickr photostream. More to follow.

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Business as usual - Volume 1

2007-05-15T21:52:15Z

Communication. The only real reason humanity wasn't wiped out millennia ago by some catastrophic event (like a flock of doves flying overhead) is because we have a guardian angel. Communication. If it were not for not for someone shouting "Watch o...

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Where have all the Deathadders gone?

2007-05-13T20:57:35Z

So, about 2 months ago my Logitech MX518's right mouse button died, it just stopped working one day. I'm a fairly avid FPS player and play online quite frequently, having a dead right mouse button (which is my jump button, incidentally) helps me n...

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Google Reader Notifier

2007-05-10T09:44:44Z

Up until recent months, I'd been using FeedReader to keep track of my RSS feeds. While not completely terrible, it had enough annoyances for me to start looking at other readers. Enter Google Reader, which has so far been a relatively (searching/f...

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Renaming files in style

2007-05-08T22:50:00Z

Once upon a time I wrote about a piece of software of mine, a stack-oriented file renaming tool. I thought this was rather nifty as I have only ever seen the regular-expression-hell approach to renaming files where you have a regular expression th...

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Nokia E65: A reviewlet

2007-05-08T12:36:23Z

My cellphone plays an important role in my job, it allows people to wake me up at early hours of the morning and to interrupt me during work or play. Without these two crucial things I might actually be able to get more done, needless to say, this...

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Giving in

2007-05-08T11:08:18Z

You again? So, after 2 (or more?) attempts at running my own blog I'm just going to give up and use an online service. As you may (or may not) have noticed, my other blog has been down for a number of months, it died a horrible horrible death and ...

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