Category Archives: Computing

Inserting unicode characters on Linux 1

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;

wNOP no longer maintained 4

Largely because I am no longer a Puppy user (read this for an explanation) I will no longer be actively developing wNOP :(

Why I left Puppy Linux 5

As some of you may know I am, albeit to a lesser extent now, a huge fan of Puppy Linux and I was, up until last October, actively involved in the community. So why the change of heart?

Nine to Five (thirty) 0

So I got a job working for a local web development company called 2bebrave, they’re a fairly new company and I make the numbers up to 3. We do all the usual stuff; design, hosting, programming, SEO and so on, I would of course highly recommend our services. Our offices are at the Create Centre, [...]

The future of tombh 0

Through the Prince’s Trust I have been assigned a mentor to help me with my business, his name is Jimi Ogunnusi, managing director of BQM Consulting. He’s a very nice man and I feel really privileged to be able to share time with him. After our first meeting he suggested I write down my future [...]