Archive for the 'General' Category

So 2006

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Well it’s 2006, and I think my body may have recovered from the non stop partying of the last week. And reading all the feeds it seems that every bloody blog in existence has a list of 10 things (for various values of 10) that I’m going to do with this blog this year. Sounds [...]

Yahoo Music Browser Support

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

The Web Standards Project points out that the new Yahoo music does not support FireFox; and if you try to watch a video, suggests that you need upgrade to Netscape 4.7 (on the mac) or 7.1 (on the PC)! I attempted to listen to one of the radio stations with FireFox 1.5, and got this: [...]

Telcos are Evil!

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Many of us have grown to accept the Internet in its current form as a given. It is just there, it has been there for a while now, and it always will be right? Not necessarily! Down here in South Africa, I pay more in one month for my ADSL (3GB cap, 512kbps shaped) than [...]

9Rules Round 3 Draws to an End

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

As I mentioned a while back, I was going to give 9Rules round 3 a bash (it now looks pretty certain that I didn’t make it in). Well with the last day upon us, and there is apparently Still a lot more to go. More than 100 and less than 500 was Scrivs answer to [...]

PHP 5.1.0 Released

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

PHP 5.1.0 has been released. Some of the key features of this version are: A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support. Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X. PDO extension is now enabled by default. Over 30 new functions in various extensions and built-in functionality. Bundled libraries, PCRE and SQLite upgraded [...]