Archive for January, 2007

DOM Inspector - CSS Style Rules

January 31st, 2007

I have been busily working on the DOM Inspector, apart from bug 221934 I have also been working on a prototype to increase the usability of the CSS Style rules pane. I have opened bug 368783 to cover the work on it. I have also built an initial prototype which doesn’t have all of the […]


Wired News: I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI

January 31st, 2007

A good article about a cyber-criminal who was caught and went to work for the FBI cracking the cyber-crime circles. It looks like over the next few days there will be more articles going further into this sort of thing.


January 30th, 2007

John Resig has a good write up on the new DOM Storage features being specced out by the WHAT-WG. I’m looking forward to his writing about all the Javascripty goodness they are working on at Mozilla at the moment.


Speed Limits around Roadworks

January 24th, 2007

Something I have noticed in my recent posession of a motor vehicle is the growing propensity for workmen to place the slower speed limit signs further and further up the road from the actual roadworks. It is important for the safety of the workers that people are slowing down to the required speed limit as […]


Wordpressing my way across the Internet

January 23rd, 2007

Writing a piece of software is never an easy process and the seemingly simple of strapping together a textarea, a mysql database and a HTML page to display your writing is no exception. It isn’t that hard to do the basics - I mean, displaying what you write on the page and producing RSS feeds […]


A Chef I can Relate with

January 17th, 2007

This guy is my new hero, a chef in the New York East Village (via Kottke) telling Vego’s where to go.
Quote of the day:
We added pork to just about everything[…] Fuck it, let’s just cook what we want.


MYOB’s Invoice Window

January 16th, 2007

It is the most annoying interface at the best of times and I’m not sure anyone who wrote the software has ever used it. Notwithstanding, the fact that windows in MYOB Premier don’t remember how big they were last time you opened one, let alone last time you ran the program is possibly the most […]


Naked Partying

January 9th, 2007

Not that it’s something I would be in for, it’s a good read. Naked Parties.


Vegas Line

January 8th, 2007

It’s called, “Vegas Line”.