Archive for December, 2006

I will never understand sports

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Can someone explain to me how someone can hate (”hate”?) people for wearing different coloured outfits. Rivalry I can understand but reading this from SuicideFan makes me realise how little about sport I really get
As a Red Sox fan, I hate the Yankees. As a Ravens fan, I hate the Steelers. As a Maryland [...]

When Easier Is Not Better

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Matthew Mullenweg is looking at JS libraries and trying to choose which will be bundled with future versions of Wordpress.
We need to make a final final decision about what JS framework we’re going to stick to for a year or more before we release WP 2.1.
This is something that will be very interesting as [...]

Performancing, Pay Per Post and Me

Friday, December 29th, 2006

So many people have asked me I thought I might as well put up a post to pre-emptively settle your curiosity.

The big question people are asking is if I have made a bundle out of it. No, I did not make anything out of the deal, I won’t make anything out of the deal and [...]

Merry Christmas

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Milton Bear Christmas 2006, originally uploaded by chrisgarrett.

Hope you all had a great Christmas.

Five things tagging update

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

In my Five Things post I tagged some people, let’s see if they responded …

D’Arcy Norman, check but he was already tagged by someone else and procrastinated until he was slapped with mine, heh
Plip, check!
Sarah Pullman, check!
David Hobby, check but I had been pipped to the post, although he did tag me back!
Darren Rowse, …. [...]

Some Mac Geek History

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

If you are a geek with ten minutes to spare take a look at these fun little stories from the birth of the Apple Mac
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
Anecdotes about the development of Apple’s original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it.

A couple of funnies for Christmas

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

First a little Christmas boogie from me

Then a little musical number from our current PM

Five Things Meme

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Nick, you bugger.
OK so I have been tagged for this Meme. It seems a ton of people have already taken part so I won’t be a grumpy sod and dodge this one. Problem is my life is a pretty open book, there is very little I haven’t already written about somewhere on the internets. Between [...]

Using o2 XDA Exec (HTC) as BlueTooth modem with MacOsX

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

One thing I couldn’t get working under windows was my o2 XDA Exec PDA as a bluetooth modem. Even with the help of o2 business support it would connect for a few seconds then just stop transferring data. In the end I bought an Aircard 3g PCMCIA adapter and put my sim in there. Of [...]

Can’t we get off this SEO treadmill?

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Why are people still spouting old worn out stale SEO advice? It’s like people read one wrong-headed article by some nitwit and decide they are a SEO expert. Yet again I read someone with more clue trying to argue with the clueless. Word to Roland Tanglao; good effort but don’t bother trying to correct him, [...]