Category Archives: Remarks
Supporting the fight against SOPA
This site, along with my sister site Hartley Consultants are supporting the fight against SOPA. Although this is an American legislation, which I have little influence over, the bill’s implementation will have far reaching effects way beyond the intended one of stopping piracy. In fact it will probably do nothing much to stop piracy, whilst [...]
Typing the © Symbol
I was trying to type the copyright symbol in Gimp in order to add a watermark to a photograph. I found this quick tip which I would like to share:- Type control-shift-u and an “u” appears, but continue typing A 9 Enter. As soon as you hit enter the “©” symbol appears, replacing the “u“.
Keeping my personal data backed up
I just read a post on Slashdot asking the question of how to keep personal data safe. The questioner had just returned from Mexico with lots (he said 16GB worth) of photographs. Other peoples comments about offsite backup, and keeping too much data made me realise that some experiences I have from this last couple of weeks were worthy of some comment.
I have been looking at both offsite backup and reviewing my archived data.
Internet Explorer 8 bugs – why aren’t they fixed?
Not being much of a user of Windows – my desktop is running Gnome under Linux – I came across a strange Internet Explorer 8 bug last Friday. I was setting up a Simple Machines Forum (SMF) forum with a colleague and he was reporting that he couldn’t create or edit any posts with a length of more than about 10 lines.
Why I think Michael Schumacher was dangerous in Hungary
I hope pictures speak louder than words. Even on the first picture Rubens is along side. But you can then clearly see Michael continue to move over
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Webkit Developers know best?
In a web application that I am building I need to use a multiple selection <select> list. Because screen space is limited I decided I would set the size attribute to 2.
In the Chrome browser, the display produces 4 lines of text – not what I wanted at all.
After a bit of searching, it seems this the webkit developers have decided not to fix this "bug" because of usability issues.