It’s not pretty and it’s not elegant, but we’ve all got a bag of quick and dirty functions that help make life just a little bit easier. This is a simple print_r() but I finally got fed up of loosing my quick debug statements and so added the line name and file number from a [...]
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Beer loving blog
Useyourlocal.com (great website if you’re away for the weekend and need to get a drink in a decent pub fast) have just started a blog with the highly imaginative name of blog. Anyway they’ve just written an article about beer made from weird stuff like stinging nettles. I’ve had omlettes made from nettles and also [...]
The bathroom crocodile
Telling your a child that if they don’t brush their teeth, then all their teeth will fall out, and / or the dentist will cause them a great deal of pain doesn’t really cut it with a three year old (and is also a questionable approach) At home we’ve come up with a new strategy. [...]
Favourite new piece of software of the week
This week came across Scratch Pad http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/scratchpad_benjaminseifert.html It fills a gap for just that a bit of notepad / jotting pad / scratch pad that has bugged me for a while – I have been using either notepad++ or text wrangler (depending on whether I’m on PC or Mac) – neither of which was quite [...]
Plumptious
Damn. I thought I had invented a new word ‘Plumptious’ – a word to describe the shape of a healthy, happy looking baby (used to describe daughter no. 2). I am saddened gutted to find that it has already been coined. Lusciously plump, can be used sarcastically as a back handed endearment. she is very [...]
