Monthly Archives: September 2002

going tabula rasa with tables

Finally started the repostioning project – all still in the hangar though. Popped through to the wondows95 partition earlier to check IE with the current layout of this page, it’s too frustrating. Wasted vast amounts of time today, but did

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“always singing, crashing out”

Via metafilter, here’s some viking related fun. It appears I was wrong about 70% of the lyrics in that song. I thought they were saying, “I wanna go where we can sing and shout” but it was “our only goal

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DIY palaeontology

Digging holes and building walls would have to come up 1. and 2. in primal boyish pursuits. Digging holes really is fun – I’d have huge holes all over the backyard if it was a bit bigger. Got to do

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fitba

It’s been so long since I read any Irvine Welsh that i wouldn’t have much chance of pulling off writing this entry in coloquial scottish, but I do remember fitba’ = football. For the record, i was brought up a

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Does your mother know where you’re blogging tonight?

I’ve just been spurred on to follow through on this entry by Tony who seems to be in the same boat. I was humming and harring for several weeks about telling my mum the address of my blog. Acually, it

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On cracking linux apps

It’s come to my attention that quite a few of The Kids out there who use Linux are fishing for a crack for Codeweavers’ crossover plugin. Should we see their closed source company as just another that keeps information from

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what & stitch?

There’s a kiddy-movie out now called Lilo & stitch and all the talking heads are pronouncing it Lee-Lo. What does this mean? Is the Linux boot Loader is also pronounced this way – – and I’ve been pronouncing it Lie-Lo…

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Smoothing it out

I found this page via OSNews – it an xft hack which makes typefaces in OpenOffice.Org and KDE look nicer. And here I was thinking they were as nice as they could get. i haven’t tried applying it yet. When

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I got this “shinning” thing

I do i tells ya! Right back here I mentioned that I was reading Alice got lucky’s weblog. I spent a while reading through the archive, but she wasn’t updating much in the present. But one morning a week later

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Splash Screens

Goodness me – two posts in one morning? Anyone would think I was procrastinating – yes I’ve burnt my 1 week ahead of schedule situation and it’s back to the grind. Via OS News found this article about the upcoming

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