Creating backups of my files - which, like for many people includes thousands of digital photos, several gigabytes of music, a few videos, e-mail address books, web browser bookmarks and so on - is one of those tasks that always manages to make it to the bottom of my daily to-do list. Just as I [...]
Just a couple of days after I talk about bottling your own water, liquor giant Dan Murphy’s here in Australia has emphasised my point that bottled water is one massive con, by selling bottles of wine at just $2 each! The report I read is sure to provoke arguments both for and against such highly [...]
Why don’t people drink more tap water? This is what I don’t understand. Up until the past 6 months or so most brand name bottled water in the UK was more expensive per litre than petrol. In Australia it is common for a 600ml bottle to cost around $2.50 (approximately £1.25), a litre of unleaded [...]
This post is intended to assist those experiencing full-screen viewing issues with Flash based video sites, but with the bulk of the post aimed towards those who like me have struggled to successfully embed blip.tv hosted videos into a web page and play them in full-screen mode using the blip.tv provided embed HTML.
Generating RSS feeds from static HTML web pages
Posted Wednesday 09.07.08Sadly, even some mainstream, well used websites still do not offer updates via RSS. More fool them I say, they are potentially losing people who would otherwise be repeat visitors. There are ways though that you can automatically and easily generate your own feed(s) based on one or more of their pages.
About one year ago [...]