Monthly Archives: June 2008

A successful day

Here’s my video blog post from Seesmic today. And before anyone comments: yes, I know that I showed the navigation example on Opera 9.5 and not Internet Explorer. Trust me, it works on IE too!

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Photos

My Mum holding me in early 1972. Scanned from a positive film. There’s a scene in the film Bruce Almighty where Bruce’s girlfriend complains that Bruce has no interest in her current relationship-oriented project of collating an album of shared … Continue reading

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Jiig-Cal and BBC Scotland

This is a Seesmic post that I made this evening about an email I got from BBC Scotland about this blog post from 2005: My JIIG-CAL results from 1985. According to the BBC journalist who contacted me “the story will … Continue reading

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Firebug bug

Today I spotted a bug with Firebug 1.2.0b3 in Firefox 3.0. Here’s what I posted to the Firebug Google Group: I’ve just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 (on Windows XP Pro) and have installed Firebug 1.2.0b3 but I’m having an issue … Continue reading

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My Seesmic debut

Today I made my internet debut on Seesmic: the video conversation website. I remember someone leaving a comment ages ago when they heard my voice on an MP3 file saying that it kind of freaked them out to hear me … Continue reading

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WW2 tunnel on WWW

Photograph from Unseen Jersey I remember as a child one of my ambitions was to dig a full-size World War I trench in the front garden. Understandably my parents wouldn’t let me, and to be honest I really didn’t have … Continue reading

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The Strepsils Strike Back

While watching Star Wars Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back” the other day I noticed for the first time that the Rebel commanders on Hoth all have little packets of Strepsils throat lozenges pinned to their jackets. I guess if … Continue reading

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