Over the last couple of years, I’ve been getting a steady stream of proposals from various “entrepreneurs” who want to advertise their stuff on this website. More »
Is a blog without comments still a blog? I guess it depends on who you ask. While most blogs have comments enabled, there are some very prominent bloggers who don’t offer this feature to their readers. More »
After wrestling for some years with one of the worst browsers ever made, I’m no longer prepared to support IE6 in any way, shape or form. The time has come to say goodbye to the long hours, stylesheet hacks and workarounds so that websites look and work as intended. More »
Recently, and for the first time in my life, I was asked to compile a personal list of professional values. After around a week, here’s what I came up with. In terms of work preferences, I enjoy exploring things in depth and arriving at solutions to problems by experimenting. More »
If you’ve been here before, you’ll probably notice a complete change of design. With a greater focus on clarity and essential features, our content now stands out much more, with fewer distractions. We make much better use of whitespace and, apart from content-related images, have almost eliminated all graphics. More »
I got spammed by the giant of Redmond a couple of weeks ago, offering me “cool prizes”, just to search the web using their struggling search engine. From: <microsoftlive@sendemedia.com> To: <xxx@lutrov. More »
Apologies to all our readers for experiencing a broken home page at this website over the last 12 hours. We have embarrassed ourselves a little with our inadequate testing procedures, after some code changes which improve the relevancy of our search facility. More »
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One of our readers asked me to elaborate a little on the artists who contributed to my enjoyment of music from the 70’s. More »
Even though I specialise in software development, people regularly ask me for advice on a whole range of computer-related issues. Hardware upgrades, home networks, virus removal. Anything to do with computers, really. Then, they go right ahead and ignore it. Often to their own detriment. More »
For those folks who complain that even though Wordpress has hundreds of free themes they just can’t seem to find one that suits them, our very good friends over at Dr. Web Magazin have a very nice collection of some eighty-odd themes you may not have seen yet. More »
I have created a lightweight XML template for those of you using the Simpleton Image Gallery in conjunction with Picasa. More »
Simpleton is an open source PHP application which enables you to view Picasa2 image galleries on the web, using nothing more than the Picasa2 XML “web export” feature and an FTP client. Simpleton parses the generated XML and renders the image galleries on the fly. More »