z e r o f u n
Nov 27
Nov 12
» Google Calendar Provider for Thunderbird
Only had a brief play, but am already really liking this add-on which provides bidirectional integration between your Google Calendar and your local calendar in Thunderbird (to use you must have the latest version of Lightning installed - which provides the Thunderbird calendar component)
Oct 18
raising babies
We’ve been watching the daft, bringing up baby on Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/B/bringing_up_baby/index.html).
Now if I was feeling curmudgeonly, I’d call it the worst type of pseudo scientific program, spuriously stating factoids based on the three or four families featured. However it was mildly entertaining, and apart from the fact that all of the three expert mentors shown on the program were apparently barking mad, the message that I ended up taking from the show was how astonishingly resilient babies are in coping with their parents’ neuroses.
Heh, on that note, well done Martin and Lisa, and can’t wait to meet Robin.
Aug 08
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— little excerpt from Facebook’s terms and conditions
Jul 12
» Everything you could possibly need to know about shoelaces and knots
Sounds stupid, but even Taz was sneakily interested in learning ‘the fastest shoelace knot in the world!’
Jun 29
» Free software to capture Last.fm streams to mp3s (via lifehacker)
TheLastRipper can save Last.fm streams to mp3’s, while downloading album cover, appending ID3v1 tags and organizing you music after Artist/Album/Track. TheLastRipper will also help you generate playlists from the data available from you Last.fm account.
Jun 18
Lloyds building, London: Random photo - just experimenting with location info for pictures. (via Photos from sma)
Jun 16
“ can you shut these windscreen wipers off - they’re really stressing me out
— taz
» un disco verable » Color picker applet
Neat little applet that provides basic colour picking fun on Gnome. Needs to be compiled and installed manually, but this is pretty straightforward provided you have installed both python-gtk2 and python-gtk2-dev.
Jun 13