Humidity and Moldy Camera Lenses
Posted by Oli @ 3:31 PM · 29 September to Life
Woe is me! One of my lenses has contracted mold in Japan’s ridiculously humid summer. I didn’t even realise mold could grow on glass?!Continued... (311 words)
IE 6 Display Error?
Posted by Oli @ 6:37 PM · 28 September to CSS · Coding · Weblogging
This weblog has a display error in IE 6. I don’t know if I’ve fixed it, so leave a comment if things don’t look quite right.Continued... (135 words)
Autumn
Posted by Oli @ 6:37 PM · 26 September to Diary
An update on Miwa and Oli’s lives over the last few weeks, as summer has changed to autumn.Continued... (544 words)
Color Theory
Posted by Oli @ 4:32 PM · 17 September to Design
In developing a color scheme for this weblog, I decided to learn a little more about color theory. I’ve compiled a short list of web resources and books about it. I’ll follow this up with another article on color tools for web designers.
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Post-Punk Progression (short film)
Posted by Oli @ 1:06 PM · 14 September to Life
Matt Kowalyk has a short film online - Post-Punk Progression. Check it out - it’s funny.Continued... (84 words)
Microsoft and Competition
Posted by Oli @ 5:17 PM · 12 September to Japan · The ‘Net
China, South Korea and Japan announce plans to help develop a decent OS, Microsoft cries foul. Microsoft goes before the US Congress to talk about virus susceptibility in it’s OS, and a new security hole is found. Hehehe.Continued... (238 words)
Fun with SQL
Posted by Oli @ 4:38 PM · 12 September to Coding · Weblogging
I had some fun playing withContinued... (281 words)
Nature, in all it’s glory
Posted by Oli @ 3:55 PM · 11 September to Diary · Japan · Life
Some interesting experiences I’ve had with nature recently; celestial, meteorological, predatory and aquatic.Continued... (276 words)
Capturing a Window in Mac OS X
Posted by Oli @ 2:36 PM · 11 September to Apple
I finally worked out how to capture a window as a screen shot; Command Shift - 4 then Space. I’ve also listed all the other Mac OS X screen capture keyboard shortcuts.Continued... (242 words)
Extra Safari Features; HetimaSafariHackEX
Posted by Oli @ 2:30 AM · 08 September to Apple · The ‘Net
I’ve found a great Safari enhancement called HetimaSafariHackEX. It adds a new menu allowing you to quickly change your default charset (great for surfing Japanese pages when your default charset isn’t Shift-JIS). It also adds bookmark title searching, and (very) basic code colouring to View Source. It’s good!Continued... (329 words)
Knowledge is Power
Posted by Oli @ 3:55 PM · 04 September to The ‘Net
Knowledge is power. However endless copyright extensions are preventing knowledge from entering the public domain. Recently the BBC and MIT have announced plans to publish a lot of material, free for non-profit use. This is inspiring news, and reminds me of Philip Greenspun (another person contributing to the greater good).Continued... (467 words)
