http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ odds and ends from the browsing and thoughts of Nick Holmes en-gb 2007-11-12T12:36:19+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000331.shtml .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Huge fire, originally uploaded by cight. Looking out across London there is a HUGE fire apparently at, at waterden road, straford, just where they are goig to do the olympics. The london fire brigade latest news said "Incident - Waterden Road Eight fire engines and around 40 firefighters are currently attending an incident on Waterden Road, East London. The Brigade was called at 1206."... 331@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Social Commentary 2007-11-12T12:36:19+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000330.shtml Black hats get no lunch. So I'm at web 2.0 expo this week. It's starting well. I've learned how to optimise and fiddle re SEO stuff. I also learnt if you get a speaker that likes the sound of his own voice too much then all the lunches are gone when you come out. (poor mark). update - no coffee and wireless only works well when you can get an IP address, sat through 2hrs with no connections... wont drop my connection again...... 330@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Techie 2007-11-05T12:07:50+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000328.shtml Benjamin had a quote of the day today. Disclaimer first, if you don't know Benjamin is my 3 year old. Lying on the sofa he was playing with his willy, vicky (my s.o) said, "people don't want to see you playing with that Benjamin" Benjamin replied "so don't look"... 328@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Children 2007-01-16T23:20:20+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000327.shtml I'm planning a new site, nickholmes.co.uk, presently it just points back here, but soon i hope to start a fresh there. Hopefully i will be focusing more on technical articles, help and news around my field of work, web building. I haven't decided yet what to do with spareparts, abandon? maintain with funny stuff? remove? migrate to be the archive of the new site? If you have any opinions please post them.... 327@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Other 2007-01-13T14:54:22+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000326.shtml On this japanese site directions about making party food sausages into little bunnies, very cute. followed by what i think are koalas bears , elephants,shark. then some sort of dragonfly from what looks like a carrot. Ok getting silly now, a moose too, a bird with chicks in a nest. Finally for those with a real warped sense of food, a sausage and cheese(?) battenburg cake... 326@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Funny 2006-08-03T13:20:40+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000325.shtml apparently some official bodies regarding mime-types finally caught up with the fact that ecmascript and javascript exist. So there is application/javascript rather than application/x-javascript. but of course this wont change anything for a while yet, it will still be text/javascript for 'type' in the script tags in your html and browsers wont get it and server software wont get it. All for a few years anyways. But I guess its a move in the right direction. (thanks to anne's weblog)... 325@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Techie 2006-08-03T10:08:32+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000324.shtml So, we were having a chat at work today about image replacement, using images to replace headings text for the puposes of prettified / designed fonts. We ended up with no options save images in pages with alt/title tags, or trying to persuade designers to use livetext with font declarations.... 324@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Techie 2006-07-31T22:14:52+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000323.shtml So, I like geo locating my photos, and now I've found Yuan.CC Maps that shows them all on a map at the same time, or at least whichever you choose to have. Brilliant !... 323@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Cool 2006-07-29T19:14:53+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000322.shtml Possibley the best show with the least credit, Boston Legal (imdb) (tv.com), possibley in the uk at least because its on living tv a tv channel aimed at women and also on sky and cable only. Starring William Shatner and James Spader (amoung others), its a series about a law firm, its an intelegent darkly comedic series winning golden globes and emmy's.... 322@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Social Commentary 2006-07-23T20:51:24+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000321.shtml So... Cight.com, now, as a domain, into its 8th year (about that I think). But maybe not for much longer. I've recently aquired nickholmes.co.uk, and well, it does what it says on the tin, its not random, I don't have to explain it, I dont have to spell it out just so people can find it (well, I'll probably have to mention the 'L' for some people). But then again, cight has been though thick and thin with me, but the spam is piling high. Maybe I'll use it for... 321@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Blah blah blahh... 2006-07-01T22:47:36+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000320.shtml Exxon Secrets, how Exxonmobile fund the global warming sceptics. Its actually a good use of flash to explain the complex funding relationships. Also highlights how all the people round Bush are connected to Exxon funded companies, and how those companies ask Bush to do things or not and he does what they tell him. oh, the surprise...... 320@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Eco-Friendly 2006-06-21T20:02:00+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000319.shtml So I'm at @media 2006, and well it makes me think. Getting on and developing some stuff, in Ruby on Rails, with DOM scripting and so on? What to do at work? The fact that we're missing a trick with the team abilities just doing the same over and over rather than progressing, or are we keeping it feasible (no not really).... 319@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Techie 2006-06-16T11:20:46+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000318.shtml Bloody Day great game for shooting people in the head with different weapons.... 318@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Games 2006-06-03T18:56:34+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000317.shtml Its a list of lists, the top items from things such as fark, deli.cio.us, furl, flickr, et... popurls.com | popular urls to the latest web buzz... 317@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Social Commentary 2006-05-09T00:55:06+00:00 http://www.cight.com/spareparts/archives/000313.shtml I use del.icio.us/cight a little. I thought I'd just back up my list of links here, handy I thought. I'm going to try to sort a way I can add a recent cool links to this blog without having to do a whole new entry each time I find something cool. I wondering maybe a separate links blog would be good that publishes its simple output here.... 313@http://www.cight.com/spareparts/ Cool 2006-04-19T00:32:31+00:00