The Cracker Fairy
Growing up, my family didn’t just have Santa, we had an extra little thing, something that I didn’t know until I was quite a bit older, was unique to my family. We also had, The Cracker Fairy. In Great Britain and some members of the common wealth, crackers are a traditional part of Christmas. You…
Hudud and Escape, a novel by Andy Barratt
On the 4th of November, I spotted a strange term trending on Google+, “#nanowrimo2012”. I had no idea what it was or how much I would find myself tagging posts on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ with #nanowrimo after I found out exactly what was going on. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. The…
NME Radio Player
My brother’s complaining that he can’t listen to NME Radio. I’m wondering if this might be because they’re trying to use an overly fancy radio player on their site. In case that’s the case, here’s a basic HTML5 NME radio player: Update: Confirmed, he is able to listen now. Update2: It’s also suspected that NME’s…
My Favourite Area
This morning it was raining on my walk to work. Now it often rains and whilst I find it depressing, I am generally used to it however this morning, the rain was cold, harsh, unyielding and most importantly, its angle fell directly upon my upper legs as they lifted one at a time in my 30 minute…
Google Maps has its oddities too
While we’re all jumping on the band wagon of pointing out that iOS6 Maps having bad maps (it does by the way, truly awful maps), let’s not forget that no body is perfect… Not the first issue that I’ve found on Google Maps, let’s not forget what I found on a TomTom satnav a while…
How to block Farmville 2 Notifications on Facebook
So a new version of Farmville 2 has been driving me mad with notifications on Facebook. Here’s how to block them. Just go to http://www.facebook.com/appcenter/farmville-two and click that Block button. For the sake of your own sanity, do it now! Can’t do it now? Add it to your To Do list on http://www.myagilityboard.com
Set default field (focus) on ASP.NET Login Control
I have been struggling with something at work for a few days now and that is setting the default text field on the login page of the miiCard website. Our login page is very simple, username, password, that’s it. Choosing to have one field as selected proved very tricky because we were using the asp:Login…
Graduation Garden Party
I graduated recently, here’s a photo taken from the balcony of the school of computing. Nine exposures are used in this picture and its resolution is 76.06 megapixels.
Dear Nectar Developers…
Dear Support staff, You have likely noticed that you are receiving no registrations of Nectar Cards through your website, please forward this message on to your site developers as it will explain how to fix this issue. When registering my Nectar card online (using a temporary card I’d picked up in store), I was told…