16 May 2010

Getting the Apple iPhone Remote App Working With a ZyXEL Router

Yesterday I replaced my old Belkin router, which had been randomly blocking Safari from looking at websites where lots of small images loaded at once. I bought a shiny new ZyXEL P‑660HN. It’s a lovely little ADSL wireless router, it got a string of 5‑star reviews on eBuyer, and everything worked well out of the box. […]

15 May 2010

I Has Made a Web Site

This is just like when you post what you think is a really fucking original photo to Flickr and the first fucking comment you get is “Hi! I’m an admin for the ‘Upside-down photos of penguins wearing bobblehats (shot on Velvia)’ group, and we’d love to have your photo added to the 2,947,341 photos that […]

8 May 2010

Parcel Farce

I ordered a replacement WiFi router the other day, from eBuyer. Earlier on this week I got a card through the door saying that Parcelforce had tried to deliver it. On the Parcelforce website, I found that I could re-arrange delivery to a local Post Office, and pick it up from there. So, I did […]

8 Apr 2010

Normal Service Will Be Resumed

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Hello, dear reader! You may have noticed one or two extra posts overnight. This is because I’m in the process of changing from my homemade, terrifyingly ugly, “let’s learn about WordPress themes” theme to a vastly prettier theme made by Curt Ziegler. I’ll probably be done juggling the site around by the end of next […]

9 Mar 2010

Taking Screenshots from the Command Line in OS X

I was so impressed with this I had to share. I was looking for a way of taking screen shots of a user taking a screen shot. Yes, that’s a bit meta. Basically, I wanted to grab some screen shots for a tutorial piece on how to capture screen shots on a Mac. So I wanted […]