Wii Golf

Posted Monday 27th November, 2006

Whilst trawling through my feeds this morning, I chanced upon this excellent clip. Proof that the Nintendo Wii can teach both the fundamentals of golf and improve a child’s vocabulary in equal measure:

[Found via Kotaku]

A Question of Sausage

Posted Monday 30th October, 2006

“Sausage” is a bizarre word. Consider the following:

Last night, I had 4 sausages with my mash. I could’ve eaten another sausage, but then I would have eaten A LOT of sausage.

What’s the plural of “sausage”? Is it “sausages” or is it “sausage”?

P.S. It’s Monday – don’t ask!

Update: Uh… I do realise that sausage isn’t the only word that exhibits this particular behaviour, I just wondered what that behaviour is called. Oh, and sausage is a slightly silly word which helps.

Firefox 2.0

Posted Thursday 26th October, 2006

Internet Explorer 7 has been on full release for about a week now and Mozilla have managed to jump on the proverbial bandwagon and release Firefox 2.0. If you haven’t already downloaded it, you can find it here:

http://getfirefox.com

I was originally writing a blog post on getting FF2 to run simultaneously with FF1.5 (for testing purposes), but Stupot beat me to it. So instead, I’m collating a short list of resources to help you get the most out of Firefox 2.0.

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WSG Meetup: Microformats

Posted Monday 23rd October, 2006

Last Thursday I took a trip up to London, to attend the latest meeting of the London Web Standards Group. It took place at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University and the theme of the evening was microformats. The speakers were Mark “Norm” Norman Francis, Jeremy Keith, and Drew McLellan.

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Sitepimp

Posted Thursday 21st September, 2006

Funky House DJ Paul Velocity

A good friend of mine has just relaunched his web site so I agreed to pimp it to the world - go take a look if you have a minute:

Funky House DJ Paul Velocity

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