Archive for the ‘Useful’ Category
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Just renewed my motor insurance. I got a renewal quote from my current insurer (AutoNet) for £480 pounds. Typed "car insurance" into Google and spotted a funny little 'sponsored' box at the top of the results:
I don't usually click on the sponsored ads, expecting prices from sponsoring companies to include ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (skype) isn't associated with any program
I added some skype buttons to lolyco.com recently and seemed to hit a brick wall. While there seemed to be plenty of others running up against the same problem, I couldn't find a working ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
A quick note, because this stole several hours of my life. I knocked up a little web application with a trivial web form which was CSS, cookie and javascript-free in the expectation that it would work even on elderly mobile phones, so long as they had a browser. It was ...
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Sunday, June 17th, 2012
Was struggling to find playgrounds around Tavistock, so started a little project here:
Tavistock playgrounds
With some pins in a Google Map:
View Tavistock playgrounds in a larger map
We're often the only ones in the playgrounds we visit, which is a bit odd. It hasn't been the best of weather recently, so I ...
Posted in Breaktime, Life, Useful | No Comments »
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1343" align="alignright" width="242" caption="LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Alpha Rex"][/caption]
I bought the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 recently and was a bit disappointed to find that it didn't come with printed instructions to build Alpha Rex - the robot on the box art. I searched for the instructions all over the ...
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