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On 17 and 19 May we visited London for work. Unfortunately we weren’t aware of the details of the London Congestion Charge scheme and have been issued with a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN). What is the Congestion Charge If you travel into central London (link to page with map of region) a charge is levied [...]

19 Feb, 2010

Juan Corbett it’s all in the name?

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So, what would it take to rank for Juan Corbett’s name? Perhaps having a Hacker News profile of juancorbett or maybe making an email address for juancorbett@alicious.com would do it?

14 Oct, 2009

Turn off Akonadi on KDE4

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If you’re being bugged by the kres-migrator wanting to move your resources over to akonadi, but like me are not using the KDE PIM apps (KMail, KOrganizer, KContactManager, KPilot, etc.) then here’s what to do.

Let people visit your site rather than be hijacked by Digg? Here’s how. All Digg links now are served within an IFRAME this code breaks out of the frames and leaves only your site there.

07 Apr, 2009

Topographical web page view

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Hide content and show structure using an overriding stylesheet – it’s kinda like a reverse “reset” stylesheet – this was inspired by the Firefox Webdeveloper Toolbar by Chris Pederick but is intended to create a more obvious structure and to show off user interaction elements. form parts like textarea and input are green links are [...]

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Following a question about Inkscape and support for cutting plotters by Cricut, , I’ve looked at some cutting software from SCAL ( craftedge.com ) and Cricut and am having a bit of a What-The-Flip moment. SCAL & Cricut plotting and cutting applications The Cricut cutting machines are apparently “serial” [ie RS232] with a USB to [...]




  • admin: It is very easy, even I could do it! Virtually no learning curve to produce something (see my example). Something good on the other hand ...
  • GW!NEG!ON: interesting development with this PaulStretch thing, but i've been breaking music for months using AnalogX Autotune, XMPlay, and Sound Recorder from X
  • admin: @bob, @Ben, Thanks for your comments, guess I've been too long on Ubu' but now so long as it works I'm not too bothered if it's through WINE or wha

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