Snow Leopard Chaos Subsides

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Like a damn fool true fanboy I installed Apple’s Snow Leopard the day it came out. Sure, it was faster, and I liked the polishes they made to the user experience. But it broke a lot of things that made it possible for me to develop web sites on my laptop: MySQL, all my Perl [...]

Staying on top of Changes with Mercurial

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

If there’s one constant in software development, it’s change. Little changes here and there, and the occasional big change happen all the time. Web development is the same, and arguably even more so. Freed from the need to package everything up and ship it in a numbered release, it’s all to easy to fix a [...]

Updated to WordPress 2.1

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Even though I’m totally up to date with the software engine that runs this blog, I’m way behind on blog posts themselves. Surely there’s more interesting things to report than this!

Dave, morphed

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

I found this “cool morphing site”:1 on digg.com today. You upload your photo, and a java applet morphs your image in various ways. Here I am morphed to a Manga cartoon and an El Greco painting: It’s like Sunday morning comics! [1]http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/

Transparent Desktop

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Since transparent desktops are all the rage lately, here’s one of Carley (click to enlarge). And remember, kids, only use those mad Photoshop Skillz for good!