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by simon baird

Thursday, February 04, 2010

which one do you reckon looks the coolest out of these three bikes?

(no reason)

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Have you heard this song?

It's sooo catchy!

Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Announcement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyU7udQhBr8

http://www.myspace.com/jonathanboulet

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

How to customise your Firefox toolbars to get a little more screen realestate

Install the Tiny Menu Firefox Plugin. This plugin will hide all the normal menus and make them available under 'Menu'. (In my case I've configured it to keep File and Tools instead of hiding them). Then customise your toolbars (click View/Toolbars/Customize). It's a little hard to figure out what to do there but you can drag things around. I've put my bookmarks toolbar up onto my menu toolbar and put the menus over on the right. Then hidden the original bookmarks toolbar. It's pretty nice and I a bit more screen realestate. The extra bling is a Firefox persona of course (which requires Firefox 3.6).

I haven't done this but you can do a lot more by tweaking userChrome.css in your firefox profile directory. See http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html or google for more examples.

Monday, February 01, 2010

Love

Love
Was the air in your mother's lungs
When her fathers tore her fences down
Plastic bags and the panadol was out

Sunday, January 31, 2010

more about joanna at tivoli

http://community.livejournal.com/milkeyed_mender/186095.html

Saturday, January 30, 2010

i made delicious broccoli soup

recipe

Thursday, January 28, 2010

more on the ipad (sorry :)

nerds two years ago (you know who you are): "oh man, imagine how cool it would be to have an ipod touch with a 10 inch screen"

nerds today: "so lame. it's just an ipod touch with a 10 inch screen"

ps, here is the Steve part of the keynote in four parts: if it hasn't been taken down yet

i'm starting to think my building is not all that serious about recycling

there are two half-sized yellow-top wheelie bins. for the entire building. and one of them is by the swimming pool so it barely counts.

lily allen

at riverstage

dizzee rascal

at riverstage

iPad promo video (8 minutes) plus my thoughts on the naysayers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Hz8dhQw8Q

naysayers:
  • stupid name
  • it's just a bigger ipod touch
  • i have a laptop/netbook, why would i want this?
  • it doesn't have a connector/slot for hdmi/sd/minisd/vga
  • it can't run two programs at once
  • it has no camera
  • it doesn't run flash, everyone knows you need flash to browse the web
  • it can't make a phone call
  • I can't install software on it (except via appstore)
  • jonathan ive is a bit of a knob*

response to naysayers:
  • not that bad. doesn't matter. remember nintendo wii?
  • exactly
  • if you don't know then you can't have one. (it's about the ui. and the ux)
  • exactly
  • actually this is annoying me also
  • i thought a webcam would be good. prediction for future version plus built-in mic.
  • yeah that kinda sucks
  • it's not a phone
  • get over it
  • yep

* Okay that was me..

Update
youtube vid above suppressed. godammit apple. it's a freaking advertisement. for your product. gah! your are pushing your luck today! i am trying to be positive here!
http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/#video
(good luck with the quicktime...)