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Sycamore Canyon, July 27th 28 Jul 2013 | 09:42 am
We went for a hike through Sycamore Canyon this afternoon getting some amazing overlooks of the Pacific coast as well as seeing some very alien landscape. This canyon was one of those hit by the wildf...
Wildwood Regional Park, 1st June 11 Jun 2013 | 04:33 am
Last weekend a friend of ours was visiting so we took him out to one of our favourite walks in the Wildwood Regional Park. We’d spotted earlier in the week that there was a closer entrance to the park...
How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age 10 Jun 2013 | 10:20 pm
A friend recently made me a deal where he would buy me this book if I’d read it and tell him something that I learnt from it. I think this is all a cunning plan of his to get all … Continue reading →
500px isn’t quite Flickr yet 27 May 2013 | 12:20 am
Since the big changes to Flickr last week I’ve been mulling over the idea of switching to a different photo sharing site. 500px had caught my eye in the past as being a very similar concept to Flickr....
Hello new Flickr, goodbye social 24 May 2013 | 10:25 pm
To say that it was a shock to find Flickr had released a massive revamp of their site is something of an understatement. Ever since Yahoo took over the reigns the site has received minimal attention l...
Six years revisited 21 May 2013 | 09:00 pm
Two years ago I blogged about how it had been six years since I wrote my first patch for Firefox. Today I get to say that it’s been six years since I started getting paid to do what I love, … Continue...
Firefox now ships with the add-on SDK 16 May 2013 | 03:31 am
It’s been a long ride but we can finally say it. This week Firefox 21 shipped and it includes the add-on SDK modules. What does this mean? Well for users it means two important things: Smaller add-ons...
Afterburner steak rub 15 Apr 2013 | 04:45 am
This is a recipe for a steak rub that I made up last night. It came out pretty well and everyone enjoyed it. It slightly caramelises the surface of the steak infusing it with herby goodness and after ...
Get notifications about changes to any directory in mercurial 6 Apr 2013 | 02:36 am
Back in the old days when we used CVS of all things for our version control we had a wonderful tool called bonsai to help query the repository for changes. You could list changes on a per directory ba...
Hacking on Tilt 19 Mar 2013 | 05:38 am
Tilt, or 3D view as it is known in Firefox, is an awesome visual tool that really lets you see the structure of a webpage. It shows you just how deep your tag hierarchy goes which might give signs of ...
