Category Archives: Computing

Integrity 0

Sandalwood is considered the epitome of excellence, imparting fragrance even to the axe that cuts it.

Frintr 0

A week ago today I launched Frintr. It’s a project, of my own inception, that I’ve been working on for 10 months. The basic gist is that you create a mosaic of your own profile picture from all the smaller profile pictures of your friends from Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, which you can then have [...]

MySpaceID SDK and PHP 5.3 0

If you’re trying to get the MyspaceID SDK working in PHP 5.3 then you’re going to need the updated version of the Janrain OpenID library instead of the version that it ships with as default.

Lenny, Nginx, FastCGI and Symfony 0

Running Apache on 256MB of RAM is not ideal and when I started worrying that my VPS might not be able to cope with sudden spikes in traffic I decided to give Nginx a shot.

Inserting unicode characters on Linux 0

If all you want to do is insert a special character like an em dash (—) or an ellipsis (…) in Linux you don’t need any special programs like scim or kcharselect, you simply;

#uksnow timelapse 0

I love snow, it makes everywhere look so beautiful and clean, plus it disrupts all those boring things like work and school. So I also love Ben Marsh’s Twitter mashup that plots #uksnow tagged tweets onto a map. Watching Ben’s map I itched to see the ebb, flow and movement of the tweets across the [...]

Facebook, MySpace & Twitter Connect Buttons 0

Cyberpilgrimage 0

I suspect there are many who would find it odd that religion and the Internet appear in the same sentence, let alone the same word. Yet I’m sure most would agree that the Internet is having profound effects on the world and that we are only just seeing the start of it. To remind ourselves [...]

What if Facebook was as open as Linux? 0

It all started with one simple thought, “I like the way that Facebook keeps me in touch with my friends, but I don’t like that it is a multi-million dollar, commercial business. Surely there must be another way?”

RSS feeds per user in Wordpress 0

Googled for a while expecting to find some plugin to do this, but no luck. So here’s a quick hack;
Open up /wp-includes/feed-rss2.php and at about line 35, after where it starts the while() loop, add;