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On Rolling Your Own Blog Engine

August 27, 2010
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Happy coder

Why rolling your own blog engine is a fun (and counterproductive) thing to do. Why the six year evolution of tomwalsham.com has ended up on Wordpress
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Smooth image resizing in Internet Explorer with CSS

August 26, 2008
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Smooth image resizing in Internet Explorer with CSS

A method to improve the quality of images when dynamically resized with CSS or javascript by the browser, targeted for Internet Explorer 7
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Cross Browser CSS Vertical Align

July 10, 2008
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A technique for vertically aligning elements with CSS, to emulate table behaviour, across FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, Opera et al.
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Union Filesystems for MythTv

March 10, 2008
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The end result of a snowy saturday spent trying to merge distributed filesystems for Myth Video, with Unionfs, aufs and funionfs under Ubuntu Gutsy
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Safari On Windows

June 11, 2007
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Safari On Windows

Apple today announced they have ported their Safari browser to Windows.
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Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!

November 24, 2006
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Google implements Badware warnings into search results
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Exporting mail from Opera’s M2 email client and Importing to Thunderbird

August 16, 2006
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A brief howto on Opera exporting and Thunderbird importing for email
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Disable IE update that causes “Click to activate and use this control”

April 12, 2006
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A microsoft patch to disable the irritating functionality caused by the april patch, often installed by automatic update
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More on the Click To Activate And Use This Control issue

April 12, 2006
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The latest microsoft patch cycle has included the eolas patent resolving ie patch. Here's how to fix your pages to work again
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Click To Activate And Use This Control

April 12, 2006
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Microsoft, having lost a patent dispute with Eolas, have modified ActiveX to require a click for embedded content, like Flash, or Media
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