Simon Wheatley

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  • Configuring Apple OS X to use a Nokia 6300 as a bluetooth modem

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    With a lot of help with Ross Barkman‘s handy modem scripts, I’ve managed to create a bluetooth modem connection with my Nokia 6300 on (UK) Orange. On the off chance that this is useful to someone else, here’s what I did…

  • BarCamp Leeds

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    Very excited to be signed up for my first BarCamp, and the first BarCamp Leeds ever. Big thanks to Deb, Imran Ali, Tom Scott & Dominic Hodgson for organising this. Now I’ve just got to work out what to talk about, ideas so far: WordPress as a CMS Events searches for Children & the Arts…

  • Exporting from MySQL to CSV

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    Everytime I need to do this I go into at least five minutes of Googling for a decent solution. The problem is that a lot of people don’t have access to the commandline, so the solutions all reference PHPMyAdmin which is, you know, OK, but I don’t use it or want to install it just…

  • A Spanish tasting evening

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    We went to a Spanish food and wine evening last night at Love Saves the Day. Very interesting, with food writer Clarissa Hyman (who’s currently promoting her book The Spanish Kitchen) and Ed Cross from Boutinot. Spanish food is apparently on the up and up again, what Clarissa described as the “second food revolution that…

  • I, for one, welcome…

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    While procrastinating this morning, I finally looked up the source of the saying “I, for one, welcome our new [fill in blank] overlords”. From The Simpsons episode “Deep Space Homer“:

  • Staggering onwards is not good

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    For animals, pain is a signal that something is wrong and it needs fixing. If pain didn’t exist we’d all be accidentally leaving our hand on the burning gas hob, or on the electric bar fire and wondering about the burning smell long after we’d been injured. We want to know when something isn’t right,…

  • Disappearing Photoshop cursors

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    I’ve had a problem for some time now: my cursors in Photoshop CS3 on OS X are invisible. I’ve no idea why, or how it happened, but it’s really awkward when you can’t see where your mask is going to start, or where you text cursor is going to blink into being. The solution After…

  • Directories

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    Just put up an article over at Startershop on getting your business listed online and off. I hope it’s useful.

  • Contractors and tradespeople

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    We’ve just had our house done up, and some of the lessons we’ve learned and problems we’ve hit may be useful to others.

  • Spiced sweet butternut squash soup

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    An improvised soup, based on a combination of what was in the cupboard and “Spiced Sweet Potato & Red Onion Soup” from Soup Kitchen; this version is pure butternut squash. That’s the wife’s lunches sorted then.