Entries posted in June, 2007

The strawberry meth hoax

A few days ago I got one of those “this is not a joke, warn the kids” chainmails from someone who should have known better than to just blindly and carelessly forward this type of rubbish: Please read and digest. This could be one of our children, grandchildren or friends.  More »

Kooky, quirky Safari

I tried the brand new Safari browser for Windows last week. While I’m still a little puzzled why Apple would even bother entering the Windows market, I’ve noticed a couple of things which I don’t particularly care for: Like iTunes, it has a kooky user interface, which can’t be customised.  More »

Simple HTML chart

One of our readers recently observed that we don’t seem to be using any images to draw our barcharts and wondered how it was done. We use a custom-written HTML chart generator, written in PHP and designed to be run as a CLI script.  More »

Google moves into top gear

Will Google’s collection of business office tools, combined with their brand new offline web application technology, make the operating systems on our PC’s irrelevant?   More »

Getting the client IP address

We’ve seen plenty of PHP scripts that rely on the $_SERVER[’REMOTE_ADDR’] variable when trying to establish the IP address of the client computer.  More »