Category Archives: Geeky stuff
Essential site maintenance
It may be that I am Keith Neilson will be unavailable for a bit this afternoon as I’m performing some fairly routine maintenance and spring cleaning. Not to worry though, if all goes as planned we should be back and transmitting as normal later on in the day.
Wish me luck.
M out
Site Redesign Underway
I am in the process of redesigning and re-organising my blog. I have a completely custom built theme pretty much ready to go, hopefully I’ll be able to offer it for download once I’m finished tweaking it.
The EVE Online Wave pack
Or should that be Wave front? We’ve already got a Blog Pack, and a Tweet Fleet. Anyway whatever its called its a kind of rolling conversation on Google’s ‘Replacement for email’ which they have called Wave.
EVE Blogs – Categorized OPML
Building on Ga’lens stalwart work in compiling an OPML file of the majority of EVE blogs I took it upon myself to categorize them according to a variety of criteria.
GameScribe Open Beta, and a Contest
As I think I may have mentioned, Gamescribe is a new hosted blogging service built along the lines of Wordpress.com (it even uses the same software) designed specifically with gamers in mind. Read on for more info…
Let’s Crown Stephen Fry King Of Twitter
I’ve been caught by the twitter bug, as you might have gathered (I’m @mandrill in case you were wondering), and it seems the rest of the world is coming with me (unless they were there already).
@stephenfry, yes that Stephen Fry, has a twitter account and is currently the third most followed twitterer with 120,000 (and [...]
Spotify – An Introduction and A Contest
I have discovered Spotify.
First things first. This is not an ad, Ihave not been paid to post about Spotify, I don’t work for Spotify, and I have no other reason for posting about it other than I think its a great idea.
Presenting The Twitter Collaborative Fiction Experiment.
I had a mad idea whilst pluttering around on the intertubes this evening.
Collaborative fiction through the medium of Twitter.
I must be nuts.
Imagine, if you will a story told a whole load of different people, in chunks of 135* characters or less (including spaces). It has the potential to produce a collective outpouring of imagination of [...]
OOP PHP is making my head hurt :(
I’m trying to write a nifty little program to help my wife out (see her PC repair company here) in PHP and MySQL and have come to the conclusion the object oriented is the way to go as it means that I’ll be able to adapt the code to other purposes further down the line.
My [...]
More on the Digital Native/Immigrant idea.
I came across this link in the comments on todays Sunday Papers on RPS and was going to reply in the comments but it turned into a rambling essay that deserved its own post, so here it is:
