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    floater

    I’ve always shyed away from putting pictures of myself on my site, but this one had to go up – me floating around…

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    safari and IE on mac display problems

    on IE on a mac, the grey vertical subheading bar was expanding to fill the whole screen and clicking onto the lab menu item is causing…

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    the future of the net – more useful, less visible

    something i’ve always said* – from an interview with Andrew Beach:- Q. Tell us what the future (net) looks like? A. It will be more useful…

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    starskiweb working on basic HTML device

    Because all the formatting and styling for this site is done with CSS, this site should degrade to work on any device which supports HTML. Below,…

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    VNC authentication failed

    Are you sure you haven’t just got the caps lock key on? I mean of course i’d never make a stupid mistake like that, but….

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    dandelions

    The road verge on this industrial estate where I work is covered in rotting leaves and caked in mud from passing traffic. I was holding the…

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    Photoshop pattern tiling

    like where you want to create a repeated pattern like a background image in a web page:- solution from Hozza:- In Photoshop marque the section you…

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    w.bloggar failing with error -2147217887

    it was returning an error code -2147217887, and I believe this *may* have been because of brackets (now removed) from one of the blog titles. I…

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    the cats hate me

    because I make them wear huge plastic collars to stop them pulling their stitches out.

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    blogworks failing

    with the following error:- Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a01a8’Object required: ‘xmlRoot’/admin_dir/xmlsubs.asp, line 477 I believe this is something to do with editing a post from a…

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    windows XP keyboard mapping

    sometimes I think I don’t deserve a career in IT – I just spent a good half an hour completely stumped as to how to change…

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    troubleshooting section

    I always seem to find myself coming up against the same problems, fixing them then forgetting how I did it when I get the same problem.…