Thursday, November 19, 2015
Just a few of my issues with The Martian. Spoilers, obviously.The version of the human race in the film has had the foresight, ingenuity and money to start a colony on Mars, but they couldn't tie a guide rope between the spaceship and the base, or between each other. You know, like climbers have bee
...Thursday, October 1, 2015
Since Yelp appear to hide bad reviews I thought I'd also post my review of Sendean here.I dropped off a camera at Sendean for a repair quote. The camera would switch on but the lens wouldn't extend fully. The quote I got back was as much as the camera would have been worth in mint condition. When I
...Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Flickr Auto-Uploader for Windows Phone will automatically upload pictures and videos from your Windows Phone device to Flickr. You can choose the privacy setting and tags of the uploaded files, any of your phone albums to upload from and one of your Flickr albums to upload to. If you have a Lumia 10
...Thursday, July 23, 2015
Writing a Flickr app for Windows Phone I was confused as to why the authorisation URL was forwarding the user to http://m.flickr.com instead of the authorisation page after they logged in and I had to detect that and forward them to the authentication URL again. After a while even this stopped worki
...Friday, April 10, 2015
Step 1:Set the system wide DPI to a comfortable level for your highest resolution screen, using X Resources. There is a DPI calculator here.Step 2:With the DPI set in step 1, work out what scaling is comfortable on your secondary screen. You can do this by adjusting the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx Fir
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