Still Breathing

For the geek in your life, the ultimate in luxury. I prefer this model, of course, as it’s the biggest. It’s just a pity there’s no dedciated space for a rack of music gear and a mixing desk. Perhaps I’ve found a new business opportunity…

Those of you who know me are aware that music is one of my passions (indeed, the only thing I have any decent qualifications in), so this article caught my eye. In a nutshell the technology allows a new type of plastic to be installed inside a drum shell that then acts as a pickup,…

I have a new mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson K750i. It's very nice, and the fact I got it for free makes it even nicer. So thats … nice.

Recently I’ve been relegated to using a dial-up modem to connect to the internet. There’s not much point in paying a small fortune for broadband when we’ll only be in this house a matter of weeks. However the slowness of dial-up is starting to grate. I must have been spoiled by having broadband for the…

So, about that whole new JavaScript/DOM Scripting/AJAX thing that I’ve been sucked into. PPK has done some benchmarking and now concurs with what had been buzzing around my head for a while. Namely that when using JavaScript to change how an element looks, it’s much better (and faster) to change the className than apply new…