March 2011
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Roo's green salad
1/2 red onion, chopped I packet trimmed and sliced runner beans, chopped I packet Alpeno feta with olives 300g chicken, diced 1 garlic clove, diced I packet rocket, spinach & watercress, washed 2 tblsp each of balsamic vinegar and lemon juice
Add onion, runner beans, feta, vinegar and lemon juice to bowl and stir.
Fry garlic and chicken until chicken is white. Add rocket, spinach and...
May 2010
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Such a good idea... →
April 2010
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Apparently an image being an image is confusing!
Is it soo strange that I truly believe; only use images when you are actually showing an image? You know like a pretty photo, or nice little diagram…
Headings, (to me anyway and I am a little crazy), are NOT images! Even if you have to render them as one because they use a non-system font. I actually thought this fell under basic rules for nice mark-up. Not according to the...
“I don’t even NEED to rob you because you’re already set up to rob...”
March 2010
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Ada Lovelace Post - Women in technology
I couldn’t think of any one woman in particular I wanted to blog about for Ada Lovelace day, in fact I struggled to think of one woman I knew of and respected, in a technology based industry, who wasn’t a work collegue. Due to this I decided to give my respects to all women in a technological environment, mainly because I work within one myself.
The problem that will arise with me...
Shooting List
Five people you are allowed to shoot on site, should you actually see them.
Robbie Williams
Jimmy Carr
Trisha Goddard
Cheryl Cole (CHAV)
Probably David Cameron (or whoever the current Tory leader is)
“That sounds like your actually made out of code, with a PHP skeleton, HTML...”
February 2010
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A note on map useability
OK so you’ve integrated a google map onto your webpage - proud? - you should be. However before patting yourself too hard on the back - have you used it?
Caramel syrup, that’s what I’m lacking. A little bit of that in my coffee and it’s happy Roo. Obviously thinking about this hard at work, the mecca of all high streets is below me, and I have a lunch hour....
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I'm on tech crunch! [Check out the pic] →
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Pretty brilliant mouse use →
Pretty brilliant arrow rollover, on the ‘continue’ button. Hover a couple of times for it’s brilliance, then click it.
Pretty cool huh! Keep clicking, if the content is off the page, just move the mouse to it. Phew, wish I’d done it…
Cartman sounds for Adium →
This is hilarious - I now have Cartman talking to me all day - it’s the little things :)
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“You know you’ve been working with a client too long when you know their...”