Category Archives: Asides

Watermelon Sculpture

Watermelon Sculpture

Originally uploaded by devilgate.

My son’s first sculpture. Clearly Halloween can’t come soon enough (though watermelon is a lot easier to carve than pumpkin)

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What’s that stand for?

I remember several years ago when the right answer to this was given wrong on University Challenge; but you’d think that, after all this time, The Guardian’s Technology section would know what URL stands for.
Tip: it’s uniform, not universal.

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FF3 on Linux

Well, that business with installing Firefox 3 on Linux? Finally done on my Eee PC. Took ages, but the instructions worked more-or-less perfectly.

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It is _immensely_ annoying that you can …

It is immensely annoying that you can’t just download and install Firefox 3 on Linux (at least the Xandros distro that comes with the Eee PC) without having to install something called Gtk+ 2.10. Not least because you can’t just apt-get install the latter: you have to build it from source, and handle [...]

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Water on Mars

Phoenix has found water on Mars, by the way.

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Fluidity

Why does no-one make themes that are fluid anymore? By which I mean ones that re-flow the text when you resize your browser window, of course.

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