Archive for August, 2007

New project - record store community site

Friday, August 31st, 2007

this is my latest project - very much in alpha stage still, a record shop and vinyl junkie (secondhand collectors kind of people) community web site:
Vinyl Passion
Not sure whether to go with the domain as it is now or another on vinyl-passion.com that I have. Thoughts?

Anti Position

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Cool, but messy blitz game:

Upgrading a G4 Quicksilver PowerMac in 2007 …

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I recently acquired a PowerMac G4 quickSilver for £50 from a friendly Guy.
He threw in a ProMac keyboard and a Promouse. the machine had 256 Mb RAM but has no Airport or ZIP and all else is standard as per its initial Apple release. I have put Tiger on it and it works. It was […]

links for 2007-08-14

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

How to put Combined Fields Into CakePHP’s Model->generateList() | PHP Coding Practices - Become an expert PHP Programmer
(tags: cakephp generatelist forms selects)

CakeForge: Snippet Library
(tags: rss xml feeds cakephp tutorial code)

yura @ thinkweb2.com
(tags: prototype reference javascript tutorial js)

Modernist architecture: utopias in sky|11Mar06|Socialist Worker
(tags: utopia)

Installing OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode
(tags: […]

links for 2007-08-13

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Basic Pagination Overview (1.2) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP : Articles
(tags: pagination cakephp)

cassette tape culture
(tags: cassette design music 80s mix)

links for 2007-08-12

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver) and (QuickSilver 2002): CIP Instructions
(tags: g4 powermac quicksilver macs osx diy upgrades video pdf)

Corrosive, volatile beauty: Writings on Joy Divison, New Order and Factory Records
(tags: joy division new order tony wilson factory music)

links for 2007-08-10

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Form fields with memory | prototype
Persistent Default Values.
As mentioned above the example uses Event.stop() to prevent the form from submitting so you can see that the default values are cleared. Luvverly!
(tags: prototype forms js javascript)

links for 2007-08-09

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Bill Clementson’s Blog: Concurrent Beer Song in Erlang
(tags: programming erlang languages weird beer)

How to Speak French - Mahalo
(tags: french learn tutorials fraçais)

longish review of Gregory’s Girl (1980)
“And as we follow Gregory on his roving, uncertain ‘date’, Forsyth almost convinces us that the drab, concrete new town of Cumbernauld is as romantic as Paris.”
(tags: paris gregorys-girl […]

Moka slime!

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Someone on the “Pile of Discuss” posted this interesting question, which I also have often wondered:
i have a octagon aluminum moka pot that i make ‘espresso’ in, in the morning with. and for some reason there is a clear slime left on the bottom where the water goes. Any ideas why or […]

Charge of the light brigade…

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Whoa,
in our post-sticky toffee pudding bonding era, my father and I exchange a kind of verbal RSS feed of gadget finds whenever we chat. Ha! Prof JB has come up trumps with his latest one, a solar powered universal charger. It costs about £25 (ebay UK has plenty for sale) or you can get it […]