One size does not fit all
I wrote this in reply to an insightful article by Jenni Tennison giving an insider’s view of the UK government’s current project to unify all of its websites into a single one. I agree with the doubts...
View ArticleOn the occasion of a local sporting result
I’m told that a group of men who swear affiliation to Southampton (despite most of them having no apparent connection to the town), have successfully kicked an air-filled pigs’ bladder into a giant net...
View ArticleIndeclinable
There are six nouns in Latin which are indeclinable. They are: fas — fate, divine law instar — likeness mane — morning nefas — sin, abomination nihil / nil — nothing, none secus — sex, coitus...
View ArticleAnalogue vs Digital Synthesis
What can I say on this subject that hasn’t been said before? Try this… I’ve never been convinced by the fetishisation of analogue synthesis (or outboard gear, or recording…). Soundwise, Analogue is...
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How to make sure you don’t miss posts by your favourite Facebook Pages
Make an Interest List and add it to your sidebar Favourites You may have seen the following message circulating on Facebook: Due to Facebook’s new policy, only about 10% of people that ‘like’ a fan...
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Slime
Image by Frank Kunert I am gross and perverted I’m obsessed and deranged I have existed for years But very little has changed I’m the tool of the government And industry too For I am destined to rule...
View ArticleHow to revert Firefox 14 awesome bar auto-completion behaviour / switch off...
Firefox 14 introduced a change to how the “awesome bar” (aka location bar) works – it now auto-completes in place. A lot of other browsers do this, so I guess it’s consistent, but I don’t like it – I...
View ArticleReview: Kanger T2 and Vision Vivi Mini Nova clearomizers
Like many vapers, I started out with a 510-style cartomizer, but soon got bored of the continual refilling, and the fact that there’s no indication of how much is left. As soon as I discovered...
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How to reset Viewsonic VP181b EEPROM / DVI
I’ve long been searching for the method to reset the EEPROM on my Viewsonic VP-181b 18″ monitor. I bought this monitor second-hand and the DVI input has never worked since I got it. This didn’t matter...
View ArticleBring back the Firefox (wait / busy) mouse (cursor / pointer) (hourglass /...
Old versions of Firefox used to indicate when you were waiting for the next page to load, by changing the cursor to one with an hourglass or clock. This provided immediate visual feedback at the screen...
View ArticleVerifying the Tube station “mackerel” factoid
I’ve heard the following little nugget of information before: St John’s Wood is the only station on the London Underground network which does not contain any of the letters in the word “mackerel”. I...
View ArticleA better, faster way to write a Raspberry Pi SD card image
The standard way of writing an SD card image for a Raspberry Pi (or any other purpose that requires writing a whole disk image to the card) from any unix-like system (eg Linux or Mac OSX) is to use the...
View ArticleHow to make a video clip with avconv / ffmpeg
The following commandline will make a 30 second clip in output.avi, from the file input.avi starting at 2 mins 25.5 seconds: avconv -i input.avi -ss 00:02:25.500 -t 30 -codec copy output.avi ffmpeg...
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Bypass cut / copy / paste blocking on websites
An increasing number of websites seem to be blocking the use of copy and paste. They have their reasons for doing so, but they’re rarely good reasons. For example, they frequently justify banning...
View ArticleNot TDD or BDD but DDD: Documentation-driven development
I used to advocate test-driven development (TDD), but now I advocate DDD – documentation-driven development. I don’t even know if it’s a “thing”, I just decided that’s how we should work. Writing tests...
View ArticleHow to switch the Ableton Push 2 touch strip into Modulation Wheel mode
Hold Select, press touch strip. The Select button is at the bottom right of the Push 2. Just hold it down, and press the touch strip until the display says “Touchstrip Mode: Modwheel”. To switch it...
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