September 2009
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Ditching Spreadsheets for Budgeting
I’ve been doing monthly budgets on spreadsheets since I finished Uni, started work and finally became financially responsible for myself (sorry it took so long dad!). I first starting using Appleworks, then I think I might have moved to NeoOffice for a bit, and then for the last few years I’ve been using Google Docs. The spreadsheet itself has had a few tweaks over the years, but...
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More technical details about Google Chrome Frame
jimray:
I am completely smitten with Google Chrome Frame. I don’t think it’s an overstatement to call it one of the more interesting developments in the web landscape to come about in some time, because it finally provides a real solution to the horror that is Internet Explorer. It’s not perfect, of course, but it’s an audacious start. If nothing else, it should give Microsoft a rather swift...
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Github Works
I’m fortunate in that I’m not particularly bothered about the underlying VCS I’m using. So I don’t have to get into any philosphical arguments about Git vs Mercurial, etc, because for my needs, SVN would be fine; I’m not working on any big multi-user projects, I’m just interested in version control for my stuff.
Days gone by I’ve used a locally...
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“Flip at the bottom. This is the image that has been better for me. Start out the...”
– - By Bricycle: Fun On Two Wheels from How To Get Into Toe Clips On A Fixed Gear Bicycle
So a bit later than hoped for (although patience provided me with a 99p eBay bargain), I’ve got some toe clips for my bike. No more embarrassing moments forgetting I can’t freewheel down hill and...
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“Most people shouldn’t be running their own blogging software.
Services like...”
– - By John August from Blogs and Baked Goods
When I first started with a website I used Blogger as a backend to my site. I’ve also used static generation with Nanoblogger. And even had a bash at my own built blog in Rails. I’ve never used Wordpress, but agree with the sentiments that...
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iTunes 9 uses Webkit →
Finally! Although it seems not completely. I seem to remember reading that the old iTunes store was something to do with being Quicktime based, but that could be a load of rubbish. I guess iTunes was around awhile before Webkit was even a twinkle, and of course iTunes became quite entrenched on Windows and Linux so switching probably wasn’t that straight forward.