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Archive for August 2005

The Logitech

Just gone and bought myself a new mouse, the Logitech MX 1000. I was skeptical about buying a cordless mouse, as I’d heard (and had tried my friend’s older cordless mouse) that they suffering from delays, and general movement problems. But I thought I’d give one a go anyway. After some investigating I settled on [...]

Message To Apple

Apple design some great hardware. Their computers looks great. Their laptops are stunning. Even their software is excellent (if you believe the Apple marketing), or very good, if you believe everyone else. Their music players are great, as are their keyboards. But their mice are terrible. Even the “mighty” mouse.
Here are the things I don’t [...]

ALA Redesign

The legendary A List Apart (for people who make websites), has redesigned. Looks very smart to me, a big improvement on their old design.

Another Design

Got bored of the old design, and a few people said they didn’t like it anyway. I liked the design, but was disliking the colours and feel of the site more and more.
So not touched the structure of the site at all (the markup I mean). Or much of the positioning parts of the CSS, [...]

Thoughts On Linux

Well, after a week of playing about with Ubuntu and more recently Fedora Core 4 (running KDE), I have realised what Microsoft did with Windows. I love the idea behind Linux and its various distros such as Debian (I’m totally for open source software, and all the RMS stuff), but I hate the implementation. Linux [...]

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Hey, I'm Chris. I'm an English Theoretical Physics student, but most of this site is to do with web development topics. I like messing about with all sorts of programming languages, and generally hacking things together.
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