Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Milton Bear Christmas 2006, originally uploaded by chrisgarrett.

Hope you all had a great Christmas.

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, …. [...]

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.

First a little Christmas boogie from me

Then a little musical number from our current PM

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]