Monthly Archives: September 2006

Fonts

Posted on September 30, 2006 by dale

Been messing around with doing a little design work this morning… and discovered Pengiun Fonts. If you’re looking for “free” fonts that look cool and instructions on installing them on your linux distro of choice this is the place to … Continue reading →

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Article on Online Retailing

Posted on September 29, 2006 by dale

A really good read.. this article gives a very different view of the world of online retailing. The articles called A view from (under) the long tail. I really love the following bit from the article: Where Amazon’s normal customer … Continue reading →

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Paint.NET

Posted on September 26, 2006 by dale

I stumbled across this one while I was looking for a solution to an odd problem in .NET 2.0 (C#, trying to save a changed datasource.) What’s cool about Paint.NET is that it’s a free Open Source photo editing software. … Continue reading →

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Apple’s new product – iTV

Posted on September 21, 2006 by dale

So if you’re a Apple fanboy you’ve probably already heard about there cool new piece of hardware coming to a TV near you… sometime in the not too distant future… What is this new device? oooh well it’s kinda like … Continue reading →

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My (not so) new toys…

Posted on September 19, 2006 by dale

I’ve got a problem that I really like buying computers, and while I don’t always have an exact use for them when I buy them I normally find something for them to do. A few weeks back (about 2) I … Continue reading →

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Two IT Guys were talking in a bar…

Posted on September 19, 2006 by dale

Two IT guys were talking in a bar after work. “Guess what,” says the first IT guy, “yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde in a bar.” “What did you do?” says the other IT guy. “Well, I invited her over … Continue reading →

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Six phases of a Project.

Posted on September 16, 2006 by dale

SIX PHASES OF A PROJECT 1) Enthusiasm 2) Disillusionment 3) Panic 4) Search for the Guilty 5) Punishment of the Innocent 6) Praise & Honours for the Non-participants Found on the Buildaid website.

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CraftZine

Posted on September 4, 2006 by dale

This one is for my mother… but the rest of you might find it interesting. I was reading one of my favourite blogs, Makezine when I saw the link to the CraftZine site. CraftZine is very similiar to Makezine but … Continue reading →

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Homemade full size flight sim

Posted on September 4, 2006 by dale

I stumbled across this site today and I just had to share it. I know that at least one of my friends (Hello Eduard ;P) will love the idea of having your own real flight simulator in your garage. Some … Continue reading →

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Open Source CAD

Posted on September 3, 2006 by dale

I’m always desinging something, I admittedly never build anything… or not once I’ve worked out it’s do-able but I enjoy designing weird stuff. Almost all of my designs are scribbles on paper and I never actually make any kind of … Continue reading →

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