A howto that just works. Nice.
Elsewhere
Here are some other websites I've been reading recently (I'm keeping track of them with the excellent del.icio.us). A lot of them are techie, because that seems to be what I remember to tag as I'm reading them. No promises that they'll be interesting to you!
Plugging mcrypt into PHP, on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 | Michael Gracie
How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier
I have a little project for a neighbour - a mic preamp / aux in / mixer / headphone amp in a package small enough to power from a PP3 battery or 2. This is the headphone amp stage, I think.
Designing for donations | Carsonified
I like this design approach - taps into the psyche of the giver very well...
HOWTO: Make Your Own Tiny URL Alias Service (TinyURL, Bit.ly, Twurl.cc, etc.) With Apache RewriteMap
Not sure if I can use RewriteMap on Joyent shared servers because I haven't got access to the virtualhost config and you can't use it in .htaccess - nevertheless, looks like a nice solution to mapping urls through a processing engine
tufte-latex - Project Hosting on Google Code
I'm thinking about typesetting a book. This LaTeX class looks nice (I'm a fan of Edward Tufte)
README.rdoc at master from ichverstehe's isaac - GitHub
Got to find a project for this. Always been fascinated with IRB, but never really found a use for it...
BBC - Radio Labs: What's so interesting about URLs anyway?
useful description of the BBC url structure. Geeky.
Interesting BBC data to hack with « Derivadow.com
Wow - the amount of cool data you can get from the BBC website is great!
RECENTLY
- New House! 24 February 2010
- Three Months After our Return... 17 September 2009
- A spiritual reflection on our year 18 July 2009
- Planned Hiatus 28 June 2009
- 24 hours into life in the UK: it's odd what you notice... 18 June 2009
