Archive for August, 2006
August 25, 2006 at 10:12 pm · Filed under Fitness
Over the last few weeks, my dearest godsister and I have been hitting the local roads trying to do 5km every other day, with a combination of running and walking. I don’t know why I just didn’t train with someone in the first place…its so much easier and you can pace yourselves better! THANKS KAREN 
Its funny how I get a mixed reaction to the distance. Some people say how 5km is nothing, others say its quite far…I guess it depends on whether you regularly exercise or not, but one thing is for sure…I’m loving it. I never used to be into running, and the most I would do is run for a bus, but just the thought of getting to Hyde Park next week with a whole group of women running for our chosen charities, that’s just awesome!
Needless to say, I’ve been ever so persistant with the hounding of people to support me, so much so that I’ve now raised the target to £500…so let’s hope I fulfil that.
Until then, the training shall continue…my race number has already arrived, as has my Christian Aid running shirt, so all I need to do for the next week is sort out the tunes on the old IPOD and not endulge for another week!
Tags: hydro+active, hyde+park, christian+aid, charity+run, womens+run
August 22, 2006 at 1:27 pm · Filed under Browsers, Geek talk
Can it be true? Microsoft are opening their arms out to the Firefox/Thunderbird camp so they can work together with the development of the browser to run smoothly on Windows Vista?
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/8/21/5065
Well its good to see that Microsoft are taking an interest in the work on Firefox. About bleedin’ time!
Forever the synic, I have to wonder whether this is all just a ploy to make those anti-IE people see Microsoft in a better light. Rather than help the developers work on making Firefox run smoother, maybe they should concentrate on making their own browser more standards compliant! 
Tags: IE, Firefox, Microsoft, Mozilla, Browsers, Windows+Vista
August 22, 2006 at 11:18 am · Filed under Geek talk
The wonderful guys at vivabit have got a number of podcasts from this years @media event up now.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/blog/
Excellent stuff
Tags: atmedia, atmedia2006, podcasts
August 21, 2006 at 7:27 pm · Filed under Geek talk
Back in the day, when I was a fresh graduate, applying for web related roles meant that you would fall into one of two distinctive camps. You were either a web designer, or web developer. A web designer role was simple…you knew how to use photoshop, you worked in flash (not necessarily actionscripting), you understood html, and knew how to use a package called dreamweaver. Developers would have to know Java, javascript, and either PHP, ASP or Coldfusion.
How times have changed. No longer are you able to fall in one of these two camps, because all these titles have emerged on recruitment sites:
- Web developer
- Back-end developer
- Front-end developer
- Ruby on rails developer
- Web designer/developer
- New media designer/graphic designer/developer
- Web master
- etc etc etc
It would seem that you need to be an uber geek these days to pass off as either a developer or designer. Read the rest of this entry »
August 6, 2006 at 10:16 pm · Filed under Music, humour
I very very rarely put videos on this blog, but the ones I do come across that I like, I just have to share.
Check out the sequence with the mother calling APL…just pure class…I think all filipinos/filipinas can relate to that one! hahaha.
Black Eyed Peas - Bebot (Generation 2)
