I suspect a lot of people find that earbuds, or earphones, or headphones, whatever you want to call them, don’t fit properly or they just hurt. Some people have small ears (I thought this was my problem for a while) and the buds are just too big. Perhaps it’s just the hard plastic sitting in […]
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Google: highly analytical
I realised recently that I had not been paying much attention to my StatCounter account. I didn’t really check on who was coming from where and who was looking at what and while StatCounter is free and they offer lots of different analyses, I found it difficult to trawl through. So I made an account […]
Drop down links for WordPress
I can hardly believe it! After all my searching for a plugin that could expand links (without using a form) and not finding one. Then after all my attempts to write a plugin that would do that, I found one already made! Vincent has made one that works nicely, it can even use Scriptaculous effects […]
Social Bookmarking
I’ve never really been into the social bookmarking scene. I have a del.icio.us account that I used regularly for a short time and haven’t really used since. Recently I installed madKast, but I was disappointed when it messed up my blog theme. I gave it several weeks while I waited for a reply to my […]
Making an expandable links widget
I’ve been trying to make a widget for wordpress, which produces a list of links (from the blogrolls created in the WP admin) that can be expanded and contracted by the reader. I’ve used the javascript that makes it possible on this site before in previous templates, so I know that part of it works. […]
Nokia 6020
After my Motorola V3 was stolen I really missed having a mobile phone. Apart from not receiving calls and messages, I went to a meeting at a friend’s place and forgot which unit in the security block they lived in. I stood outside for 15 minutes, buzzing units and even borrowing a man’s phone to […]