Notes from the long web
Making, breaking and figuring things out.
Hi, I’m Mark. This site contains an archive of my ramblings from the last 20 years. I keep planning to write more—who knows, maybe I will now?
Latest notes
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D-day
Today is D-day, the baby is now officially “due” to arrive. Given the false starts we’ve had over the last couple of weeks (Laura’s had a few bouts of contractions lasting a… Read note →
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Microsoft launch Photosynth
Microsoft have just launched Photosynth an amazing new website with software that “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in… Read note →
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Make Windows XP look nicer
If like me you spend a lot of your day looking at a PC then you want it to be as easy on the easy as possible. The standard Windows XP look… Read note →
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Baby update – 38 week check
Today’s Midwife appointment was pretty uneventful. The results from Laura’s Glucose & Iron tests where fine; baby’s heart rate is fine. It’s lying in the correct position, so that’s fine too :o)… Read note →
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How to create or edit a Firefox quick search
I like the quick search facility in firefox; the dictionary search is particularly useful. by typing “dict search-term” into the address bar you get a dictionary definition. The definitions used to be… Read note →
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Dreamweaver 8 losing FTP login settings
Recently I’ve been having a frustrating time using Dreamweaver’s FTP client. For some reason, it kept losing the FTP user name and password whenever I restarted dreamweaver, and it seems I was… Read note →
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Internet Explorer Seven has arrived
IE 7 is finaly out. Do yourself a favour, go to the Microsoft site and download it Today. It’s just so much nicer to use than previous versions and it’s supposed to… Read note →
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Baby update
We’ve been for the 36 week check today. The midwife seems happy with everything so that’s all good; Laura has got to go for a blood sugar level test next week as… Read note →
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A whole batch of good new stuff – Part 2: Web Sites
I read the other week that the average person in Western Europe now spends four hours a week online; I think this must make me special, I’ve just done some quick maths… Read note →
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No baby Today – or at least not so far
By the time we got to the hospital the contractions had all stopped; Laura was put on a monitor for nearly an hour and had a few other checks with midwife and… Read note →