Friday, 5. February 2010, 21:54:00
video, linux, html5
Ogg Theora is the codec most supported by modern HTML5-capable browsers, so how can you convert your videos to it? Pretty easily, it seems.
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Sunday, 17. January 2010, 12:52:30
ukulele, accessibility, video
A little song dedicated to
Henny, our team's queen of accessibility.
UPDATE: Make that Jack Pickard as well. A much-loved accessibility expert, now much-missed.
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Wednesday, 6. January 2010, 10:06:41
ukulele, html5, video
Off sick with a cold, what better way to recover than by singing a song?
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Thursday, 24. December 2009, 02:29:02
google, ideas
I was lucky enough to attend the first
Information Science and Technology Christmas lecture at Tokyo University the other day and, although all the talks were interesting, I particularly enjoyed Kentaro Tokusei sharing Google's ideas about innovation.
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Monday, 7. December 2009, 12:34:15
security, linux
I've tried on several versions of
Fedora but never really been able to install
Truecrypt. Either it's resulted in lots of errors or I've given up after getting tired of fruitless searching and reading.
At last I've found a guide that's not too long and works!
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Tuesday, 15. September 2009, 05:38:49
linux, mobile, video
My new
Nokia N96 (yes, and then they immediately released the N97!) may not be as intuitive as the iPhone but is packed with far more features and is so much more open to exploration that it's a keeper. Not only that but clever
@LonelyBob gave me some help last night to fix a problem I'd been battling with - video conversion.
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Wednesday, 9. September 2009, 12:40:41
Currently enjoying a wonderful evening with fellow Tokyo tech-heads.
Two things of note:
1. There isn't a Japanese equivalent to CES or other big conference. Is this because there's no interest, no-one has tried it or simply because it would be so popular there's nowhere big enough to hold it?
2. Personal servers are the future. Opera Unite is not the only player in town - say hello to ServersMan for the iPhone...
Ah, good times.
Thursday, 2. July 2009, 06:11:39
web development, php
Hardly worth a whole blog post but it may help somebody...
is_numeric() is the function to use for validating numeric-only user input with PHP but unfortunately there is no is_alphanumeric(). Or so I thought.
Meet ctype_alnum().
I've seen lots of people using regular expressions to get round this, myself included, and it's not complicated but it's still nice to simplify where possible.
Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 14:20:16
japan, linux
One of the things I love about living in Japan is the surprises it throws your way.
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Wednesday, 3. June 2009, 01:13:01
web development, reference

Inspired by a
forum post I came across the other day I've compiled a list of free online checkers/validators for web developers. Please let me know if you're aware of others. (Updated 9th December 2009)
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