http://www.simoncox.com/ Full site at www.simoncox.com Copyright 2004 Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:49:31 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.121 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Just spotted a great story on the Beeb "How the brain recognises a face" but unfortunatly the researchers used a morph between portaits to find out how we rocognise people. "An image which is 40% Marilyn and 60% Maggie will... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/sexy_magaret_th.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/sexy_magaret_th.php Life Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:49:31 +0000 Add an anti spam system to your blog. The more people who join in with the project the more effective it becomes and there are lots more bloggers than spammers.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/project_honyepo.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/project_honyepo.php Blogging Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:00:57 +0000 Ohhh - how did I miss this? Online Scrabble programme from The Man in Blue. This means I can practice online and I may be able to finaly beat Paula.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/online_scrabble.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/online_scrabble.php Action Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:19:19 +0000 Fantastic image transition code at Brothercake.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/brothercake_ima.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/brothercake_ima.php Web Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:17:57 +0000 The Croydon Guardian points out that the Council is not balancing its books still.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/car_park_budget.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/car_park_budget.php Croydon Residents Against Parking Plans Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:17:02 +0000 Yet again Brad does the business with a port of a Wordpress plugin that filters comments from known servers that are open to abuse which is where most spam comes from.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/mtdsbl_open_pro.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/mtdsbl_open_pro.php Blogging Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:35:43 +0000 Superb php script that lists a directories image contents so you can quickly and easily build a Gallery.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/imagegal.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/12/imagegal.php Blogging Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:57:09 +0000 Firefox 1.0 has been released! there seem to be some subtle changes with icons but on the whole it looks simular to the last beta release - excellent! This site has 35% of users on Mozilla for Novermber so far.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/firefox_10_rele.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/firefox_10_rele.php Web Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:37:47 +0000 I am not a football fan at all but when I was a nipper I was and it was Emlyn Hughes amoungst others that I followed. He has died of a brain tumor following a battle with cancer. Emlyn is... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/emlyn_hughes_ha.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/emlyn_hughes_ha.php News Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:01:52 +0000 Interesting artical at tompaine.com by Grag Palast on how votes declared as spoilt may have changed the election outcome. I would be very annoyed if I thought my vote had not been counted.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/spoilt_votes_sp.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/spoilt_votes_sp.php Opinion Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:52:23 +0000 All the browsers and all the properties all laid out in a table - what works on what browser.... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/full_css_proper.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/full_css_proper.php CSS Sun, 07 Nov 2004 01:07:19 +0000 Clagnut has put together a great tutorial on how to give a photo a flash like fade feel when opening and its just a simple little peice of javascript. It uses getElementById - which I thnk we are only just... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/fading_in_photo.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/fading_in_photo.php Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:47:20 +0000 Declarations with underscores are valid in CSS 2.1 and only IE recognises them! Potentially very usefull hack from wellstyled.com... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/ie_css_undersca.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/ie_css_undersca.php CSS Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:28:32 +0000 Arvind had put together an MT admin interface skinning package and tutorial following Michael Allen's work on skinning the MT interface. This means you can stylise the back end of Movable Type for each install! (I mean easily, you could... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/skinning_mt_adm.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/skinning_mt_adm.php Blogging Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:01:22 +0000 Or Jeremy James or Gaven Stubberfield was one of the dweebs that fills your inbox full of rubbish - he recieved a nine year jail sentence in Virginia for his spamming activities. Lets hope the rest take note. (I wonder... http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/jeremy_james_mr.php http://www.simoncox.com/sideblog/2004/11/jeremy_james_mr.php News Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:27:33 +0000