Here’s one for the web developers of the world. Google plus one went live today, so I chucked together a couple of simple functions, to include in your WordPress functions.php theme file. function ne_addGooglePLusOneHeader() { echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js\"></script>\n"; … Continued
Geekiness
Does advertising give a website credibility?
There has been this thing on my mind for a while. It’s based on the fact that I’m big on promoting website and whatnot, maybe even my own website .. the thing is, advertising has been getting to me, and … Continued
more bandwidth? yes please Mr Pacific Fibre
It seems the international community is starting to notice some things in the NZ internet space. This recent story on El reg “Nz boffins anchor new submarine cable” New Zealand’s new US$400m submarine communications cable project, Pacific Fibre, has signed … Continued
Pirates vs Librarians
Yep it’s the important issues I consider !!! Actually this is a somewhat important topic in New Zealand really; the laws surrounding anti-piracy and what-not in NZ. Today the NZ Herald published a story about libraries having to possibly remove … Continued
God bless fibre (ultrafast broadband)
I’ve long been a fan of fast internet. When I built my country home 8 years ago I paid an extra $5000 to get a huge pole installed, so I could get wireless delivered (17kms line of site). At the … Continued
Why my iPad sits idle, and doesn’t get used
Well it seems maybe the honeymoon is over? I bought this thing late last year, as I was sick of carting around my heavy laptop. I figured the “real” use of my laptop was basically access to email, contact, and … Continued
The shortest straw (or URL?)
So todays project was shorten my URLs Seems simple enough, I’ve been using bit.ly for a while mainly to ease my tweetdeck usage But last night I thought “myself” I thought “you should do your own URL shortening” I’ve seen … Continued
Duke Nukem Forever
Pre-Purchase Duke Nukem Forever It seems like this game has been a million years in the making, but finally after a million years the pre-release goes live today !!!! The King is Back! Cocked, loaded and ready for action, Duke … Continued
Why Safari? Why you do this?
Or why Safari on my iPad thinks it best to undo all my work! So this morning started out with a cooking breakfast, thanks totally to a thoughtful daughter and a deserving wife Somehow I just ended up scoring bacon … Continued
Flared Borders with CSS
I want a Pure CSS menu with nice rounded corners Well here’s the thing .. This article show a very elegant way of achieving just that !!! Ever wondered how to create an element that flares into another using only CSS? Here’s a quick tutorial … Continued
