Category Archives: General

XSL for iTunes XML Export

I have just spent a few hours putting together an XSL stylesheet for the default output from iTunes when you export the library as XML. The real upset about the whole thing is Apples method of storing the tags as … Continue reading

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Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

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Finally captioned up my Sri Lanka photos

I finally got round to adding caption to the gallery, so the see it in it’s full glory, click here

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FlyakiteOSX – Modify . Simplify . Aquafy

FlyakiteOSX is a “skin” for Win XP to emulate the look and feel of OSX. Not only is the idea a cool one, but their website is modelled on that same OS. Well worth a look, if only for the … Continue reading

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Google’s “Personlised Home”

Google have just released their “Personalised Home” for those of us with a Google account. (Gmail, for example) It allows you to subscribe to feeds right there on the search engine home page, as well as numerous other bits of … Continue reading

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Spam just gets better and better!

This just arrived in my work inbox. It is great on so many levels… Dear Home Owner, After satisfying the analysis we are jubilant to provide for you this endorsement, Your current mortgage qualifies you for more than a 3.4 … Continue reading

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Thin Sliced Bread

A good friend of mine asked me an interesting question last weekend. “What happened to thin sliced bread?” It got me wondering, so today I got off my backside and went to do a (very small) bit of research. I … Continue reading

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Problems re-installing VS.NET 2003

I tried the latest beta of VS.NET 2005 a few weeks ago, didn’t enjoy it so I uninstalled it. Anyway, that’s by the by. My problem was when I was tried to put 2003 back on, I was getting the … Continue reading

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Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

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PHP Galleries for Picasa

I have just completed an initial draft of a PHP-based photo gallery system. Take a look. The readme is available separately here The system is built on templates designed by Douglas Bowman Download the slim version (just an msi package … Continue reading

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