Confessions of an Uber Geek
On my last weekend in Seattle we hunted down and found the PinBall Museum… and no its not what you think, its not a traditional museum it is a double story shop in which you can play PinBall games from the mid 1960s to the modern day. You pay $15…
So yesterday was my first day at doing the Mozilla Teach the Web course… We had a live video session followed by a twitter chat [ see hashtag #teachtheweb ] and were left with a list of cool things to make using the Mozilla online resources… So what did I…
Found this presentation the other day I quite like it, discusses the ever evolving concept of IT Stratergy and presents it in a nice layout. Quick, Short and to the point but well worth a flick through, especially for those in the area of making business decisions. The strategist: An…
I was happy to learn about the Living Computer Museum located in Seattle. We headed down for a Sunday to go and see the collection of Retro Computers. I felt like a kid in a candy store it was awesome. There is so many old machines in working order, the…
I have signed up to participate in the "Teach the Web: a Mozilla Open Online Collaboration for Webmaker mentors" this will run from the 2nd of May until the 30th of June. My main reaon for wanting to participate in the course is to build up my mentoring skill set,…
This year I purchased an AlienWare MX14… I have waited for one for along time and well this one is lovely… dual hard drives one 32GB SSD and another 1TB SATA drive… Two Video Cards… 32GB of RAM capacity… Three Monitor plugs yes I said three, HDMI, VGA, Mini Display…
I recently found a great resource for creating a Joomla 3 template from scratch, I was going to write one up of my own but this one is great and walks you through the steps whilst providing some code; http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla-3/create-template
Currently working on a PHPBB project for a client, thought I would take the time to explain all the if statements used for PHPBB. These are great to add into your style (A Style is a theme/template in PHPBB) You can add these in to help provide additional information to users…
The other day I was interviewed for a pod cast about BitCoin and its current roller coaster ride on the exchange. In the past few months we have seen the price of one BitCoin move from around $30 to up to highs of $200.. The current rise started around the same time…
Today is Mozilla's 15th Anniversary of keeping the web open, it is an amazing story and one that was born from the browser war days. What started off as Netscape and a battle between them and Internet Explorer who did at one stage try to and won a domination battle of the…
PinBall Museum Seattle
Living Computer Musuem
Teach the Web Mozilla Online Course
AlienWare and Linux Drivers
