Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Let Users Control Font Size has sparked some responses, summarised by Mark but I looked at the Citydesk discussion on this. When you zoom into this page in Galeon/Mozilla (in Linux), both types of text zoom in, and in fact, contrary to what IE does, the absolute pixel sized text zoomed better than the relative font size.

Heard on IRC:
<Niall> What were the archers firing ?
<valen> rubber tipped arrows. So funny to hear the ‘ping’ as one hits a guy’s pothelm from 200 meters, and then the ‘thunk’ as the poor stunned guy drops to his knees.
<Niall> Yeah – hilarious 🙂

Close escape on train tracks – a drunk just escaped being squashed by a speeding train! Includes a frightening CCTV picture!

Tradesignals is down for a few hours this morning. I have to go out to work in a few minutes.

FFS! I can’t believe the Argos website refuses to work with Gecko powered browsers but it does work in Netscape 4! I’m going to Hollywood Video for my purchase today..
Especially after searching for the last 10 minutes on the site I couldn’t find a power supply. *grr*

TechTV | Using Digital Cameras With Linux – and make sure you plug the usb cable into the right computer.. it’s a long story.

While out searching for a joke Bob sent me, I found Gimboland that looks like rather a good blog!

Linux For the Office – The GIMP, more tips but I prefered the procedure described below for removing red-eye.

Go Ira! – The real story behind the first man to Mars

Scientific American: How to Build a Time Machine – Some great reading and head spinning ideas here.