Archive for October, 2008

A Fractal Universe?

I found this article this morning, about some scientists who suggest that the universe is laid out in a fractal pattern… which is pretty hectic. Of course this challenges the current “big bang” theory, so “Many cosmologists find fault with their analysis, largely because a fractal matter distribution out to such huge scales undermines the [...]

Friday, October 31st, 2008

FireFox 3.1 beta: classic Ctrl+Tab

FireFox 3.1 beta has just been released (portable version available here), and the “Ctrl+Tab” (for switching between browser tabs) has been changed to work and look more like “Alt+Tab” in Windows… showing you a picture of each tab you have open and allowing you to switch between them. Or as they put it “A new [...]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Useful Windows tools (that I can’t live without)

I use a couple of programs that I probably couldn’t live without… most of them are portable (or can just be run without needing to be installed), and all of them are free. Combined they weigh in at under 20mb - a very small price to pay for the functionality.
I’ve listed them in alphabetical order, [...]

Friday, October 10th, 2008

TF2: de-rez: Team Fortress 2

I found this Team Fortress 2 video here, thanks to ubercharged.net:

http://video.escapistmagazine.com/video/27426/Team-Fortress-2_2008-10-07-101050.flv

Friday, October 10th, 2008

TF2: “Your Performance As”

I found this on “Kovorka’z Gravel Pit” and like it, so here it is:

I’ve been trying to get back into playing as Spy, I think I’m in the middle of the graph at the moment ;)

Monday, October 6th, 2008

PHP-SciTE

As a PHP developer I’ve tried many different IDEs but have always ended going back to SciTE. I started using a version with modifications by Bruce Dodson, but got frustrated with it not listing PHP files in the default “File Open” window, and not recognizing PHP5 files as PHP files, so I got to tinkering.
I [...]

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

TF2: Gogol Rush video

Another really good (funny) TF2 video, called “Gogol Rush” :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg-RObt-6-U

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008