Continuing the thread of Ozzie’s geek development, Daddy found this review of Catan Junior. Looks like we’ll be having lots of fun. In about 5 years or so.
Catan Junior – A target for Ozzie to hit when he’s 6 →
May 29th, 2012Andrew & Pippa’s Wedding
May 28th, 2012
We went to Matthew’s cousin’s wedding at the weekend. We had a lovely time, with beautiful weather, a gorgeous location, and a very intimate wedding service.
Matthew used his iPad, with iPhoto, to give the photos a quick processing, pick out the favourites, and throw together a Journal, to share with the family at the barbeque, the day after the wedding. They aren’t very high res, but the result was pretty pleasing.
The web is getting more savvy →
May 16th, 2012Pretty interesting outcome to a fairly controversial experiment.
How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 →
May 16th, 2012Don’t just backup, verify your backups, keep old backups, keep other copies. Make redundancy.
DVDs and Blu-Rays Will Soon Carry Two Unskippable Government Warnings →
May 10th, 2012Boggles the mind.
Vanilla Forum
May 9th, 2012I recently set up a forum using Vanilla Forums, and have to say I’m impressed.
I started with phpbb and found it confusing and ugly. It has a million configuration options, and is probably very powerful, but even adding a new forum is confusing, with lots of permissions settings etc. And the plugin architecture is nightmarish.
I deleted that and had a look for another option. Vanilla Forums is so simple. It’s pretty, and seems to be pretty sensible right out the box. The forum I’ve been using it for is an internal project, with not that much traffic. Maybe it’s simplicity is no good for a busy forum, but the admin side of it is straightforward. It’s easy for users to navigate around. Even the way drafts are saved – it autosaves as you type, and next time you view the page you were adding a comment, everything you’d typed before is ready for you to finish.
Also, turning on
Markdown support made
me very happy. Since it isn’t well document, I’ll note here: add
markdown support to your vanilla forum install by adding the following
to conf/config.php
$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';
HTC’s downfall is a lose for consumers →
May 8th, 2012HTC was doing great, but isn’t anymore.
They tried to make their devices more open, and it looks like the carriers’ sales-strength caused HTC’s profits to dwindle. The result is HTC starting to lock up their devices again.
It’s sad that carriers have more strength than consumers, and that consumers don’t care about openness enough to encourage it (even though that’s pretty hypocritical coming from an iPhone owner).
A big reason I have an iPhone, is because I trust Apple more than any mobile carrier. And no other phone maker has the power to serve the consumer.
The Movie →
May 6th, 2012Looks interesting. Although I’m not sure what it is.
what is 18-rated content? →
May 5th, 2012Here’s what Orange UK consider ‘adult’ content.
Internet filtering →
May 4th, 2012The real problem with these proposals is that it’s not just porn that gets censored. All the UK mobile operators already have ‘adult’ content filtered out on mobile phones. Adult content like an Internet Freedom group, Internet privacy tools and even a christian church. So, if you want to access a legitimate resource online, you have to sign up for ‘adult’ services, along with the stigma of being on a list of people that want ‘adult’ content.
