Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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CSS quotes and the content property
If there’s one thing I enjoy more than learning new stuff, it is learning new stuff about something that I thought I had boxed off already. The CSS2 ‘quotes’ property pretty much fits that bill. Here’s the rub if (like me) this is a property that you’re unfamiliar with: Major browsers will prepend and append…
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Rebooting
I’m perfectly happy to accept that I’m not much of a writer. I’m also perfectly happy to accept that auto-feeding all my Twitter status updates into my blog was probably a bad idea and the reason that I stopped updating it. Rewind a second… Who am I trying to kid there? the reason that I…
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Hello world!
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Taxonomy Term count hardcoded into WPDB
Who knew, eh? Not me. I’ve been chasing the rabbit for two hours.
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HTML5 forms & a new Macbook Pro
WARNING: There is a distinct lack of hamsters in this video. Likelt very dull for non-geek types. Peace out.
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Office Skiffle & The Effervescing Elephant
Yet another video blog that has absolutely nothing to do with web programming. I hope you enjoy it and actively encourage you to get involved in the office skiffle movement. I’m not sure if there’s anybody in the office skiffle movement other than me at the moment, but we’re definitely changing the musical landscape. Instruments…
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Using variables in CSS
I’m working on a little PHP script to allow for variables and inheritance in CSS. I know there’s a ruby script that does this somewhere, but I fancy seeing if we can’t get a pure PHP version up & running between us. If you’re somebody that writes their own CSS and are willing to have…
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‘Silent’ video blogging
Continuing my foray into the video blog world, I pretend to invent a whole new genre. I didn’t really. Technically I think it was invented by Bob Dylan but who can really tell? Pointless video really as a precursor to more pointless stuff, probably.
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Welcome to my Video Blog
I’ve been meaning to get on these for a while now. I intend to cover some real basic PHP introduction stuff, maybe some dev app guides and so on. Obviously, the common WordPress hacks that people ask me to do. For now though here’s me just saying ‘hello’ and introducing you to my hamster, Joe…
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Germany government warns against Internet Explorer
You may have seen these stories in the news recently, relating to some attacks on Google, the German Government and Internewt Explorer. The original news item The subsequent reaction I’ve tried as hard as I can to come up with something useful to say on the subject, but the only thing I keep coming up…
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