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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Accidental Caps Lock Protection on Your Keyboard
I’ve just got one of the new Apple wireless keyboards. I have to say - i’m very impressed with it! It’s incredibly thin, good to look at, and doesn’t seem to gather as much crap in it as the old … Continue reading
X-Wing Launches, Falls Apart…
Oh dear, the rocket-powered X-Wing that was revealed last week never made it past launch day… It did get off the ground quite impressively though. Here’s a video of the launch.
Log/Audit Tables in Oracle
One of the useful things that i’ve been asked to set-up lately is automatic logging of changes to several of our database tables. My first thought was to do this in Perl (as the rest of the system is in … Continue reading
NodeBox
A very interesting looking app. Some of the example images in their gallery look fantastic! NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as … Continue reading
Auto-Increment ID’s in Oracle
This is old news to most people who have been using Oracle for a while, but to me this is something new that I learnt today. How to have MySQL like “auto-increment” id’s for your tables in Oracle. Here’s an … Continue reading
Google Maps for Mobiles
Dammit! This would have been VERY useful to know about last weekend.1 Google Maps for Mobiles Whilst lost looking for a mates house in Bedford (and being quite late for the house warming party). ↩
F1 Got Exciting!
Wow! I’ve been an F1 fan for quite some time, but over the last few years it’s become quite dull. Thank goodness for this year! Nothing like some rain to bring on the fun in Japan! All images © itv-f1.com