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New blog home

osblues — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:15:17 +0000

Quick update: After a long time with absolutely nothing posted here, I’ve decided to move it to a wordpress hosted blog. This won’t necessarily help/make me write anything worth reading, but it’ll hopefully save me a few quid in electricity bills when I decommission the server at home that was previously running it

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Posting again

osblues — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:38:40 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything and to be honest things have been pretty hectic.

Hopefully that’s about to change so expect updates soon

A bit of Friday fun

osblues — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:36:31 +0000

Hackers with a sense of humour tamper with road signs -

Rude Awakening For Dawn Drivers

New iTunes importing fails

osblues — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:39:16 +0000

Well so much for the latest iTunes 7, I’ve just tried to import a CD with the new version and it errors on the second track

Further investigation reveals that if I turn off the “play tracks while importing” option, it all imports fine. How annoying, do they not actually test these things before releasing them?

UPDATE: You can’t actually play anything at all while it’s importing, just throws an import error as soon as you click play!

WordPress Upgrade

osblues — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:24:42 +0000

Well, I finally upgraded to the current version of WordPress after running with the old 1.5 version for some time. One of the reasons it took me so long to get around to doing the upgrade was how complicated the upgrade seemed. Why does it have to be so complicated? Backup this, disable this, delete everything (apart from this, that, the other and maybe that if you’re using this), copy everything back over (apart from this and maybe that but deffinately this), then run the upgrade script, re-enable this then that :S

Well, I’ve done it now so that’s that over with for a while, I hope!

The website development process

osblues — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:06:29 +0000

Being an internet developer myself, I found this very amusing and rather cool The Website Development Process

It never seems to go that smoothly though

Hear me now

osblues — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:40:13 +0000

Some new Last.fm features today prompted me to search out a WordPress Plugin for RSS. I settled for RSS Import in the end which although all the info is in German was pretty simple to setup. I now have my recent tracks displayed in the sidebar

Enjoy the extra knowledge you have about me..

First thoughts of the Humax PVR-9200t

osblues — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:20:02 +0000

Not sure when it was released but I ordered the new Humax PVR-9200t as soon as I saw it was available. Now, I’ve been really impressed with my 8000t and looking forward to this new version but I have to say there are good things and bad things. I wont bother with quoting standard features as good things, just additionals that I/you wouldn’t necessarily know.

Firstly the good things -

EPG Guide now displays the currently watched program in preview picture (PIP kinda thing) with the audio
The display on the front of new box displays the currently viewed channel name rather than number, simple but very nice

Next the bad things -

The new remote is bulky and is cheap plastic
The new remote doesn’t control your TV anymore
~~There doesn’t appear to be a quick way to get to the recorded programs list now, there used to be an eject button, not anymore~~ UPDATE: Found this now. Under the flap of the remote there is a button that resembles a list which actually takes you to the recorded programes list.. very unintuitive, but at least it’s there.

More to follow I suspect but I haven’t had a full play with it yet.

One last thing… I’ve now got about 60GB of programmes on my 8000t with no apparent way of getting it onto my 9200t, bummer

Suspicious behaviour on the tube

osblues — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:25:45 +0000

This is unbelievable. My business partner is going to London tomorrow to install some new equipment in our hosting facility, he is now NOT taking his laptop!

Suspicious behaviour on the tube

Free Sudoku

osblues — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:34:04 +0000

I finally finished the free sudoku puzzle that we’ve been working on for our client. My business partner did all the complicated back-end stuff to generate new puzzles and I did some nifty JavaScript to make the UI kinda funky The puzzle is fully interactive and each number added to the puzzle is checked against existing numbers with each error being visually highlighted. As you complete the puzzle a status area maintains a count of errors and cells left to fill in. As solving a sudoku puzzle often requires making notes on the grid to record possibilities, an additional working grid can be slid out beneath to help you along your way. When the puzzle is complete and no errors exist, an option to check the solution becomes available, this actually triggers an AJAX request to double check your solution. On completion you can then send your score to your friends and challenge them to beat you

Anyway, it took me ages so let me know what you think!