Quick thoughts for 2008-01-26 (via Twitter)

  • They’re cutting down the Acacia tree behind us; not great from an environmental viewpoint, but it will mean we get summer sun after 1pm. #
  • Finished entering 134 receipts into a spreadsheet, one step closer to the completing my last minute tax return! #
  • Oh no… just found another folder of receipts. Back to Excel then… #
  • @tomsmith Maybe you could pitch the Radiohead model of payments to HMRC… we pay them how much we feel the government deserves? #
  • HMRC website doesn’t work without the "www"… rubbish! #

Quick thoughts for 2008-01-21 (via Twitter)

  • "The PayPal site is currently experiencing technical difficulties with our credit card processor." This is on their test system… eh? #
  • Spring ’08 is shaping up to be good for live music: I’ve booked for Fink in the Northern Quarter, Alabama 3 at the Academy, Portishead TBC. #
  • Got an invite to Fork’d, Cooking 2.0. Thanks @tomsmith I’ve added a chicken curry http://tinyurl.com/2wbzkw #
  • The Aquaduct is an interesting idea: bike, water carrier/filter/storage in a neat pedal powered package (http://tinyurl.com/ywl5vp) #

Quick thoughts for 2008-01-18 (via Twitter)

  • Good lord above getting Win98 onto Parallels is so ridiculously hard. #
  • With Parallels, I do like the idea that Windows installs are contained… floating in a virtual bell jar filled with imaginary formaldehyde. #
  • "Print and sign please" I hate writing on those delivery driver’s handhelds, it makes my writing look even more like a 5 yr old’s than usual #
  • Extraordinarily blatantly sexual game of chess in the original Thomas Crown Affair. #
  • The kissing scene which follows is just weird though, by modern standards. #

Quick thoughts for 2008-01-16 (via Twitter)

  • @samclark – If Leopard still freezes on boot with a non-existent drive then I’m not updating. #
  • Very amusing tale from Gruber’s kid: http://twitter.com/AmyJane/statuses/603632882 #
  • Darn, I was hoping to get over to Leeds GeekUp this evening, but Work is squatting on my life and it’s not going to happen. #
  • Really interesting ideas from BBC Radio Labs on "visual" radio: http://tinyurl.com/2byw5w #
  • Argh. Does anyone know how to escape the * character in Basecamp? I’m trying to document a shellscript with wildcards and it’s very annoying #

Quick thoughts for 2008-01-11 (via Twitter)

  • Just mounted a drive over SSH using MacFUSE and SSHFS, nice: http://tinyurl.com/2trsb3 #
  • @everyone re SSH drives… I know! I’m a little ashamed about how exciting I think it is! #
  • Ah, I’ve just realised that (of course) there is a Twitter user called @everyone and the only message on their account is inevitable really. #

Confluence link to the current page

For my current Confluence project, I’ve used Adaptavist Theme Builder to customise the View/Upload Attachments screen and I wanted to add an explicit link “back” to make it easier for users to return to the current page. I could have used Javascript, and so much of Confluence depends on client side scripting that it probably wouldn’t have been a problem… but I do like being POSH, so I wanted to keep it simple and just have a regular HTML link.

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