Useful info on SSI date and time formats and examples of their use. Not forgettng the Apache tutorial
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Designing Modern Britain
Posted on 12:57 PM by Unknown
While using my recently acquired BBC iPlayer Beta account and watching the The Secret Life of the Motorway documentary, I discovered that the motorway and other road signage that is still in use was the work of two designers in the 1960s; Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert. The above link is to a Design Museum exhibition in 2006 of their collaboration. To quote:
"One of the most ambitious and effective information design projects ever executed in Britain is the road and motorway signage system designed by JOCK KINNEIR (1917-1974) and MARGARET CALVERT (1936-) from 1957 to 1967. Intellectually rigorous yet inclusive and engaging, their system has become a role model for modern road signage all over the world."
And why is the BBC doing its upmost to bury this excellent documentary series?
"One of the most ambitious and effective information design projects ever executed in Britain is the road and motorway signage system designed by JOCK KINNEIR (1917-1974) and MARGARET CALVERT (1936-) from 1957 to 1967. Intellectually rigorous yet inclusive and engaging, their system has become a role model for modern road signage all over the world."
And why is the BBC doing its upmost to bury this excellent documentary series?
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
2nd sighting of Flash video on BBC news site
Posted on 10:42 AM by Unknown
This is the 2nd time in a week that I've run across Flash video embedded in pages on the BBC web site with requests for feedback And you are allowed to include the content on you own site or pages :-)
Thursday, April 26, 2007
powergadgets stuf
Posted on 1:15 PM by Unknown
Link to blog with details of how to create gadgets when I was looking for powergadgets info. Take a look at PowerGUI too.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
There could bee trouble ahead
Posted on 10:23 AM by Unknown
I came across an email sig recently that had something like "mobile phones: the cigarettes of the 21st century" which struck me as an interesting insight at the time. Now we discover that there is very good evidence that EM radiation from mobile phone masts may be the causal factor behind that Colony Collapse Disorder that has been affecting bee colonies on the USA and Europe over the past few years.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Not such a bargain then
Posted on 11:34 AM by Unknown
I don't know why but many of my middle class friends and colleagues have a penchant for shopping in Lidl and seem to get genuine joy - usually the more they earn the greater this is - from obtaining apparent bargains therefrom. "Look darling I've got a pair of underwater gardening gloves with a built in 5 megapixel camera for £4.99"
I'll be pointing them to this recent Guardian investigative report. Basically Lidl pay you shit and treat you like shit to sell shit. From what I've seen of the crap in their stores you'd be better off buying toxic waste. Obviously the work ethic of the 3rd Reich combined with the social policing of the Stasi lives on in the Lidl motherland.
On discussing the above with someone in the office I resolved the following that's been puzzling me for ages: you're fit and healthy and there's two of you and you've just arrived at the checkout with a bag of beans and you're asked, quite seriously "Do you need any help with your packing?" Now I suppose you should really respond with something like "That's really a bit of a silly thing to ask me isn't it? What is it about me that makes you think I/we can't get a bag of beans into a carrier bag unaided?" But then I don't go to Tesco for a social life and some of the assitants have mastered the subtle art of saying this in such a way as make it clear that they are just having to say it and there's a big bad slobbering monster under their till that will gnaw on their arse if they don't: and indeed there is - sort of! Evidently if one of Tesco's secret snooper shoppers catch them not parroting this to customers they get black marks on their record and can get disciplined.
So apart from covering the nation's trees and shrubs with windblown carrier bags you can probably work out what a deleteriuos effect on the nation's social interaction these sort of enforced facile face2face encounters in modern retailing are having: or maybe you can't by now.
I'll be pointing them to this recent Guardian investigative report. Basically Lidl pay you shit and treat you like shit to sell shit. From what I've seen of the crap in their stores you'd be better off buying toxic waste. Obviously the work ethic of the 3rd Reich combined with the social policing of the Stasi lives on in the Lidl motherland.
On discussing the above with someone in the office I resolved the following that's been puzzling me for ages: you're fit and healthy and there's two of you and you've just arrived at the checkout with a bag of beans and you're asked, quite seriously "Do you need any help with your packing?" Now I suppose you should really respond with something like "That's really a bit of a silly thing to ask me isn't it? What is it about me that makes you think I/we can't get a bag of beans into a carrier bag unaided?" But then I don't go to Tesco for a social life and some of the assitants have mastered the subtle art of saying this in such a way as make it clear that they are just having to say it and there's a big bad slobbering monster under their till that will gnaw on their arse if they don't: and indeed there is - sort of! Evidently if one of Tesco's secret snooper shoppers catch them not parroting this to customers they get black marks on their record and can get disciplined.
So apart from covering the nation's trees and shrubs with windblown carrier bags you can probably work out what a deleteriuos effect on the nation's social interaction these sort of enforced facile face2face encounters in modern retailing are having: or maybe you can't by now.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Enhanced podcast mumbo
Posted on 11:16 AM by Unknown
A local CO forum member has been using Profcast on their Mac OS X to produce "enhanced podcasts". There is an interesting article on an O'Reilly blog about this. It all works provided you have iTunes or QuickTime - of course :-)
Sunday, February 18, 2007
put it in your pipe and smoke it!
Posted on 2:36 PM by Unknown
This is really cool, baby, really, really cool (to paraphrase John Otway and Wild Willy Barratt)
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
A short log analysis note
Posted on 6:51 PM by Unknown
Investigating the use of Microsoft's excellent LogParser v2.x utility it occurs to me that to parse the proprietary access and error logs produced by RealNetworks Helix Server one could simply add a header using the W3C Extended Log FIle Format and then proceed to parse these with the supported -i:W3C input format processor?
Or .... we could just save the time and effort and pay for a copy of Sawmill! Took 5 mintes to download and install the Lite version and to produce meaningful reports for a large Helix server log.
Or .... we could just save the time and effort and pay for a copy of Sawmill! Took 5 mintes to download and install the Lite version and to produce meaningful reports for a large Helix server log.
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