Archive for March, 2008

The Evolution of Websites

Posted by Glen on March 24, 2008. No comments.

Interesting set of screenshots showing how the design of some popular websites have evolved over the years: The Evolution of Websites: How 10 Popular Websites Have (And Have Not) Changed

Tips to prevent large bills when using UK iPhone abroad

Posted by Glen on March 23, 2008. 5 comments.

Using your iPhone abroad is expensive, so to keep costs down make sure you have Data Roaming turned off: Settings -> General -> Network -> Data Roaming Furthermore, make sure that auto-checking of email is disabled: Settings -> Mail -> Auto-Check Finally, turn off visual voicemail before you travel: Dial 1760 to switch the divert [...]

Ridiculous SQL

Posted by Glen on March 19, 2008. No comments.

I miss playing around with SQL. It can be fun, sometimes. Other times, however.... I need help on simplyfying this Update query!

The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

Posted by Glen on March 14, 2008. No comments.

A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards. Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

links for 2008-03-12

Posted by Glen on March 12, 2008. No comments.

Automounting NFS shares on Mac OS X Useful guide to setting up your Mac as an NFS client: useful for working with UNIX development boxes. (tags: linux mac osx)

links for 2008-03-11

Posted by Glen on March 11, 2008. No comments.

Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule A new service that e-mails you your flickr photos from one year ago: nice for reminiscing! (tags: email flickr free links photography web)

Beatles songs set for iTunes downloads?

Posted by Glen on March 9, 2008. No comments.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the downloads are set to appear on iTunes after the band settled earlier disputes with their label EMI over royalties and with iTunes owners Apple over the use of the name. This is very exciting news as it means - finally - the Beatles back catalogue will be available in [...]

Creator of ELIZA dies

Posted by Glen on March 7, 2008. No comments.

Joe Weizenbaum, the creator of one of the earliest examples of Artificial Intelligence, has died. Weizenbaum created ELIZA, the "virtual therapist", which I've played around with in various implementations over the years. It inspired me to investigate Lisp, so for that reason alone I hold Weizenbaum in high regard. "A computer will do what you [...]

Essential third party Mac apps

Posted by Glen on March 6, 2008. 3 comments.

So, I'm now in the process of getting my new MacBook up to speed in terms of applications. Here are the apps that I decided were essential and needed installing: Yahoo! Messenger last.fm Client TextWrangler Cyberduck Inquisitor OpenOffice Firefox Bingo!