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Monthly Archives March 2005

Helpful Domino Error Message of the Week

“A view of that name cannot be found in the specified database”
Well, gosh, thanks. Why not just go the whole way and say “Non-specific badness has occurred”?

Posted 30 March 2005 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Vocabularic Inadequacy

We are in need of a new word. A word to describe a particular experience.
For there is a particular experience which currently lacks a word to describe it.
I speak, of course, of the experience of clearing one's throat, the action of which dislodges a fragment of hot peri-peri spiced chicken, which subsequently flies up into [...]

Posted 28 March 2005 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

New mount!

In fact, not all that new, as I've had it for about three weeks now. But it's only really been this weekend that I've had a chance to drive it properly and decide that yes, I really do love it to bits.
And here it is:

Posted 28 March 2005 † Simes § General ‡ Comments Off °

Surfing the bleeding edge of the new digital frontier.

Ads. There is a tension in “web land” between the necessity of ads to fund the web sites we enjoy reading, and the tendency of advertisers to annoy the hell out of us by getting in the way of the stuff we're actually trying to read.
In Firefox we have the lovely Adblock extension, an easy-to-use [...]

Posted 03 March 2005 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °