If you love Chrome and you love HTML5 then you will love this site… http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
Opening a bodyshop
Seems I’m opening a bodyshop. Not literally, but my other half’s car requires a new bumper, indicator and panel spray. My car requires a new wing (long story). Putting down the keyboard and picking up the spanner in the evenings this week – let’s hope this weather holds up! As anyone who has met me will swear testimony to, I may be a code monkey but I am not a spanner monkey.
Wisestamp has come up on my radar this week – a very cool little startup that allows you to build professional looking signatures and disclaimers for emails from Windows Live Hotmail or Google Mail. For startups, or firms moving to the Google Apps platform this stuff looks very promising. Now a product that combined this your existing on-premises email systems might just be a killer…
Fonts without fonts
I found this today: Google Web Fonts. You can build web pages using fonts that are hosted by Google knowing they will work – regardless of whether your users have the font installed. Getting a standardised font cross-browser and cross-platform with little coding overhead is has gotta be a pretty neat thing.
Things found out from testing today:
- Most UI elements use zero indexed arrays when getting the selected values. The count is 1 indexed, therefore look out for items at the start and end of lists.
- AppVerifier‘s HighVersionLie is an excellent test for any operating-system dependent application. It intercepts calls to GetVersionEx for any given application and returns dummy versions of Windows that you control.
- Expect the unexpected. Clicking the close button on a window can sometimes take you to the next screen. Just sometimes.
Where did the sunshine go today?
Road rage
Whilst being one of my favourite tunes (by Catatonia) I’m not used to being on the receiving end! If you cut me up, toot me, don’t jump out of your car to “talk about it” and expect to see my nice side…!
Sheesh.
It is nearly the weekend. And I had a McDonald’s for breakfast!
This weekend
I went to London this weekend. First of all, to collect Kareen’s work from the Royal Academy of Art. I liked Koons’ work in the courtyard, it was quite a contrast to the Georgian buildings surrounding it.
We also went to the Tate Modern. If you fancy saving yourself £30 for tickets to Tacita Dean’s up-coming show, pop along last thing on a Saturday evening and see yourself a rehearsal from the balcony.
Oh, and I found that All Bar One, Kingsway (100m from Holborn tube) is one of the few places in Central where you can get a good pint of Doom Bar, a lamb shank and a very long wine selection.
Today it mostly rained. Whilst I may have objected to this, my feet most certainly didn’t…
Microsoft Office Filter Packs
Microsoft distribute their Microsoft Office Filter Pack as an EXE, all is well aside from the fact it eats up the MSI return code. Thus, it always returns a zero indicating a successful installation.
If you need this return code, as I did, run the EXE with an /extract parameter. This gives you the MSI and its dependent files. Run this MSI, and you get the return codes. Et voila!
First post
Apparently my site needs some content.
Air Force One
Does that count as content?
Made me chuckle anyhow. Glennz site has a bunch of other similar designs if you like this one!
Why does it rain pretty much every bank holiday weekend?