Christian Biggins

Design, Technology, SEO, General Ramblings. Something for everybody.

Boycott Beijing

I think it is extraordinarily contradictive that a swimmer involved in a bar fight can have his right to swim at the games removed…. What the hell is going on? Tibetans are being murdered, en masse and China can still hold the olympic games, then one bloke gets in a bar fight and he is [...]

Linux Users forced to use Windows?

As an avid Linux user, using Windows can be a bit daunting and quite irritating. The most irritating part of Windows is the loss of the select-and-middle-click-paste functionality of X. Well, after a bit of searching and post reading (mainly on lifehacker) I found my Windows alternative. I love it to death!!
True X-Mouse

Loghetti

Brian Jones has created an apache access log parser in Python which seems like a very handy tool.LoghettiOnLamp Blog post

DROP TABLE(S) ??

For those of you that have ever tried to put up with a less-than-efficient operations department or are on a hosting plan with one database and only have drop permissions within that one database, then you’ll know that dropping a few hundred tables from within the database is a bit of a time consuming and [...]

The Chaser! Bloody Legends!

The team from ABC TV’s “The Chaser” have had their hearing date set for July after the were caught breaching Sydney’s multi-million dollar security charade during the stupidly absurd and locally restricting APEC summit last year. It was a bloody joke to hold the summit in Sydney (not even the countries capital) and the restrictions [...]

Free Toyota for selling beer?

Creating form elements dynamically using createElement is so easy with firefox, but IE throws a few problems into the equation. As usual.IE has a bug with naming an element just created with createElement. So it can cause problems.Heres a good article on how to get around it. Very easily.clicky clicky, I’m getting jiggy. Open up [...]

Australia’s Geekiest Geek

Awesome home automation story. I’d love to do some of this stuff.SMH Link