Oli’s Blog

Father of three, seasoned web developer (Django, Vue, Astro, etc), Ubuntu Member, photographer and woodworker. This is my blog, covering a raft of topics, mostly technical.

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OpenID gets support

The distributed identity system, OpenID has received support from one of the most unlikely corners: Microsoft.

Apple fires on DRM

In an open letter from Steve Jobs to the recording industry at large, he said he would implement an open store “in a heartbeat” once they relinquished their unmanageable grasp over digital rights.

Lost interest yet?

Have you lost interest in Lost yet? These mid-season breaks are killing me!

Using JavaScript Correctly

There are too many mainstream sites that don’t understand the most important rule of the internet: If you’re going to make something, it should work in all scenarios.

XXX domains are bad, mmmkay

Steve’s just had a little rant over how he feels the proposed, dropped and now reproposed .xxx top level domain is good for the internet

I’ve got talent

After a truly massive amount of JavaScript and VB.net programming, I’m almost ready to release the forums on the world.

Linux is the only winner in the PC vs Mac war

As Microsoft and Apple duke it out, consumers are starting to realise there’s more than Windows

Reason 172: Solitaire

Everybody and their brother seems to want to give you a reason not to upgrade to Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista.

Government knows nothing about tech

Perennial misunderstanding mixes with saving-the-children to make truly bad law.

The Infinite Apple Monkey Theory

Reading some of the tripe that splats out of the Apple section of Digg, I got thinking that somebody (unknown) is testing out the Infinite Monkey Theory.

Stuart Brown of Modern Life

Today I got the opportunity to talk to Stuart Brown, a professional web developer and blogger.

Creating Extracts with REGEX

I’m going to show you how you can use a regular expression to pull out fixed length extracts from HTML.

Space Schlong

It’s vandalism, Jim, but … no, it’s exactly as we know it

Do you have to let it linger?

If you were asleep between 1993 and 2005 you may have missed the Cranberries.

I’ve been using Vista for a couple of weeks now. I didn’t have to pay for it but there are many who will be considering the upgrade. For anyone in that situation, I want them to know about the various versions so they can make the best choice.

Browser Trends ‘07

Seopher has just posted his predictions on browser usage statistics entitled: Browser stats 2007 - Firefox for the win. From the title you can clearly see who he things the winner is going to be. Here is the graph I’ve stolen from his article (© Seopher.com):