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Author Archives: Karl Bunyan
Little Sydney
These little videos are great. Showing the life of “Little Sydney” by some really clever techniques. And they just look good. For best results go to the site – they’re much better larger. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3548220&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. … Continue reading
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The new Facebook layout: a step forwards, backwards or sideways?
A change of design for a site like Facebook is always a prompt for discussion and controversy. Facebook is so much part of many people’s experience of the web now that it’s like someone deciding that trees should be purple. … Continue reading
Bigger ads or better ads?
There were two interesting pieces of news in the internet ad space this week. Yesterday, Google announced they’re rolling out behavioural targeting for Adsense. What this means is that they’ll look at what types of sites you visit (if those … Continue reading
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Microsoft SQL Server text data column and PHP length problems
I’ve had this problem before: PHP truncates results from a SQL Server text field to 4096 characters. (This is running PHP under Apache on Windows.) To save myself having to work out the right Google terms again, this is the … Continue reading
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Repeatable random numbers in JavaScript
Ever since programming BASIC on the Spectrum I’d wondered why it was possible to seed a “random” number generator. But then I found I wanted to do something that would produce repeatable results, but look like a random sequence. Strangely, … Continue reading
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Firing JavaScript functions after a .Net AJAX request
I wanted to have a function called after data was returned to the page from a .Net AJAX call. (The idea was to fade out when you pressed “submit” and then redraw when data came back.) It turns out there … Continue reading
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Near Athens – the island of Aegina
Whether the island is actually spelt Aegina or not I couldn’t tell – it was spelt differently on every timetable and in every guidebook. But if fits for me. We started off at Piraeus, the port that’s virtually a suburb … Continue reading
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Athens – some modern stuff
Athens has a strange history of very ancient architecture, a bit of development with the Romans, and then not much for a very long period of time. Most of the city looks very 20th century, and not particularly well done … Continue reading
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Athens – various old stuff
Athens is full of old stuff. You can’t help seeing it everywhere, and they can’t help but finding it every time they want to build something. As a result, there are quite a few museums of old stuff, or places … Continue reading
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