Since the re-design of Nicole’s blog, Tales from Den Haag Side  we have been using a plugin to display avatars of people contributing to the comment section.  A few people have been asking Nicole how to get their picture into the comments section of the blog and she has asked me to write a post [...]

On holiday during August a friend told me that talking about something makes it more real.  I was talking to him about running the trans-alpine run, next September.  It is a 300km race across the European Alps that takes place over eight days.  Basically it is about a marathon a day at altitude.  I realised [...]

iMac, originally uploaded by Will Adam.
Apologies for the blurry photo, I couldn’t keep my hands steady, mainly due to the caffeine overdose mixed with rabid excitement of getting the mac…
oh man… it is taking all my will power not to throw the PC I am writing this post on out and to set up the [...]

Just a short blurb to point out that the folks at Sitepoint are giving away The Photoshop Anthology.  I have personally purchased several of their books and have found them to be very well written and extremely useful.  You can download the high resolution .pdf book(64mb) here (for the low resolution, 24mb, here), or sign up for Sitepoint updates and get [...]

There is a handy feature when playing with Oracle databases in SQL+ called rollback.  When working with large databases this can be really an amazing feature, especially when you realise that you have just wiped out a huge amount of the wrong data and that it has cost millions of dollars to the company you are working.  This [...]