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Well, I have finally got round to ironing out the problems with Wordpress 2.5, and have created a new theme to reflect that… Hopefully it should work properly in all browsers, but let me know if Internet Explorer messes it up (if anyone still uses that!).

It is based on a photo I took whilst in [...]

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I not that recently upgraded to iLife ‘08, mainly for iPhoto. I had previously been using version 5 (‘05), and there is a significent improvement. (Ed: this post has been sitting in my drafts for almost 6 months now :/)

The new events based view is a joy to use. Photos are by default grouped into [...]

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While out cycling today, as I went up yet another hill, I started humming “losing my momentum” to the tune of R.E.M.’s ‘Losing my Religion’. Here’s the full set of lyrics:

Thiiiis hill, is bigger,
Is bigger than you,
Than you, had told me.
The lengths I have to go to,
The distance up the side.
Oh no, my legs are [...]

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Only a day or so late, but POP over to seemikedraw.com to see the mystery of the resurrection explained (scientifically)

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Courtesy of xkcd.com the definitive guide to kilobytes and kilobits…

There’s been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000, kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalisation of each.

Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard:

xkcd 394 – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

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