January 6, 2012
by Greg Brine
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There’s a million of these how to’s out there, so I thought I’d make it a million and 1 (don’t you win prizes for being that visitor on some sites? Anyway, It’s been frustrating me as I’ve started using a couple of programs that insist that in the ‘English’ dictionary, colour doesn’t have a ‘u’ in it, and optimisation has a ‘z’ in it. Really? NO IT DOESN’T!
December 24, 2011
by Greg Brine
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So in conclusion from everyone’s statuses today, there’s a suggestion that Santa may never have delivered presents to dyslexic kids due to their affinity to Satan. Is that correct? Poor buggers. Hope their parents make up for it. Seriously though, that joke has almost gone viral hasn’t it?
December 17, 2011
by Greg Brine
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Thought I’d try doing the occasional post about some of the things I found online that I liked recently. I know everyone else has already done it, but hey, we all look at different things, and that’s why some of my Tweets and Facebook shares get re-posted multiple times. So here goes… Continue Reading →
November 26, 2011
by Greg Brine
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I’m running an older MacBook Pro (5+ years), but it still has a superb graphics card in it, which is really under used in a lot of situations, especially when browsing the web.
But, the latest versions of Chrome support hardware acceleration for certain graphics operations, and enabling it is easy. In Chrome, type the address: about:flags
November 23, 2011
by Greg Brine
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Ok, so it’s now Wednesday, and I’m only just writing about the awesome weekend we just had, but hey, that’s life. You can’t always get everything in, and to be honest, that doesn’t really matter as, I think I’ve already mentioned, we had an awesome weekend!
It wasn’t one of those, ‘Out partying all night’, or ‘We had an epic adventure’. It was just nice, balanced, and we both came away from it feeling like that precious 2 days, may actually have been longer (although we all know that it’s not possible to stretch time).
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July 20, 2010 by Greg Brine | 0 comments
Absolutely brilliant! Kevin Spacey doing some brilliant impersonations. Christopher Walken was my favourite.
February 14, 2010
by Greg Brine
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I’ve been a big fan of Halo CE since the first days when Steve Jobs announced it at MacWorld with Bungie all those years ago (I was still at Uni then). So seeing Halo Reach coming to life has me brimming with all that excitement I had all those years ago for Halo Combat Evolved (Not that I don’t love Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo ODST).
Watching that video, you can see the love and attention those guys put into what’s about to blessed upon us. You really feel like these guys are perfectionists and if it’s something they really want to play and they love, then it’s almost certain we’ll be feeling the same way.
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November 26, 2009
by Greg Brine
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I’m not one for Christmas before December, but I thought this was worth a mention:
Look at those little fellows go. Anyone know what robots they are because they’re pretty awesome – in a geeky way.
I want to see them doing combinged moves next. Imagine that, robot doing pyramids. Would be so cool (if you’re into that kind of thing).
And for the record, Christmas is in Decemeber, so that’s when the decorations and parties should be too. Not October – or even September. It’s killing the Christmas spirit for everyone. That special time of year, we can all remember as kids as coming once a year and lasting about a month, now lasts 3, and gets more and more watered down every year.
My plea: Please stop. I want it to mean something to my kids, and not just be an exercise in emptying people’s wallets. That’s not what Christmas is about. Have a heart.
October 1, 2009
by Greg Brine
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I’ve had my old WordPress theme – Neoclassical by Chris Pearson – for a while, and as well as it’s done me, I’m bored of it. It was nice, it worked, no-one ever complained. But is that enough? Well, no.
Before I talk about why I went with this theme, you need to understand that I’m not a designer, but I am a creative person. Ok, so that’s a little ambiguous so let me quantify that statement. I’m the kind of person that falls into the techie-creative genre where I can take something good, and either improve it myself, or work with a designer to really make it great – obviously making sure that the vision is actually able to be built.
Cue The Unstandard 1.2.1 theme by Derek Punsalan. I looked at his older 0.1 version a long time ago, but it was lacking a certain something. Maybe it was the mood I was in at the time? I don’t know. But that classic mix of Orange and black really got me going. And yet somehow, back when I originally looked at it, it just wasn’t right.
August 12, 2009
by Greg Brine
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I feel I need to start this blog by reliving part of my old site. When I went travelling back in 2005, my friend Pete and I had been working on building our own CMS/site combo in PHP. The tools we built allowed me to easily upload my travel photos and link them to my blogs. It was quite proud of what we did and the detail we put into it:
All in all, it was a pretty good system.