Ed Gillett's Blog » geek http://edgillett.com/blog the what, when and why of Ed Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:38:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Bill Gates runs like a girl http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/bill-gates-runs-like-a-girl/ http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/bill-gates-runs-like-a-girl/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:23:34 +0000 Ed Gillett http://www.edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/bill-gates-runs-like-a-girl/ Not exactly news, but hey. Video of a Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) parody featuring video of Bill Gates running like a girl at XBox Event.

And lest we forget the antics of Mr. Ballmer (Microsoft CEO):

http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html (featuring the Monkey Boy dance geeks know and love, and the ever popular "Developers, Developers ...")

]]> http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/bill-gates-runs-like-a-girl/feed/ 0 I can’t help it. I’m a techie. http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/i-cant-help-it-im-a-techie/ http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/i-cant-help-it-im-a-techie/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:04:41 +0000 Ed Gillett http://www.edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/i-cant-help-it-im-a-techie/ So, it's been noted that the content of this blog over the course of the last few months has verged too much towards the inanely dull and technical. That's just the way it's gone recently as I've done lots of techie things.

This blog is as much a place to share new internet toys with co workers and those friends that may find them interesting, as a place for sharing the more random, and infinitely more amusing stories.

That said, the balance has definitely more towards the tech recently, and less of anything else.

So, I'll be sure to make sure I take the time to post other stuff too. Just so happens that I spend a lot of time on the web during the day researching web techniques and the latest trends, and I post what I find as I go.

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http://immedi.at/

Simple bookmarklet which will send you instant messages whenever monitored urls are updated. Very cool.

Chuck - another good reason for sorting your domain out to actually point directly to your own blog (as in DNS, not web forwarding): this will not discover your RSS feeds off the domain forwarding frameset page (but I've subscribed using http://themojowire.blogspot.com). Speaking of which, I just noticed my blogroll has disappeared with this template. I will add it back in later.
Geoff - if you never wanted to see the boring stuff, you could always just subscribe to the rss feeds for the categories you're interested in (e.g. http://www.edgillett.com/blog/category/fun/feed/) See. WordPress is useful!

]]> http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/17/rss-alerts-to-im-immediat/feed/ 4 New Toy – FAlbum for our Photos! (Still using Flickr) http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/12/new-toy-falbum-for-our-photos-still-using-flickr/ http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/12/new-toy-falbum-for-our-photos-still-using-flickr/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:18:57 +0000 Ed Gillett http://www.edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/12/new-toy-falbum-for-our-photos-still-using-flickr/ Whilst I've been playing around with trying to get the CSS working attempting to blog photos from Flickr, I came across an awesome lil WordPress plugin called FAlbum. This uses the Flickr API to show you all the images from your Flickr account, including all the sets, tags and descriptions. You don't get the community comments etc, but you could go straight through to Flickr if you want to see that. Anywho - fun to play with!

My linked photos are here, but you can just Click on the Photo link on the right hand side of this page!

http://www.randombyte.net/blog/2005/11/20/falbum-056/trackback/

]]> http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/12/new-toy-falbum-for-our-photos-still-using-flickr/feed/ 0 Heatsinks are our friends http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/10/heatsinks-are-our-friends/ http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/10/heatsinks-are-our-friends/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:02:47 +0000 Ed Gillett http://www.edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/10/heatsinks-are-our-friends/ Vaporising a CPU. And melting a hole through your desk. Overclocked CPUs would require adequate heat removal!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054

]]> http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/10/heatsinks-are-our-friends/feed/ 0 Tool Assisted Console Game Movies http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/10/tool-assisted-console-game-movies/ http://edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/10/tool-assisted-console-game-movies/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:27:12 +0000 Ed Gillett http://www.edgillett.com/blog/2006/01/10/tool-assisted-console-game-movies/ People using emulators to complete old school computer console games in the fastest times - and the videos to watch them all!

http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/

Pretty cool - but one for the geeks in the crowd :)

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