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Creating Ogg videos in Linux

Friday, 5. February 2010, 21:54:00

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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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Inaccessible

Sunday, 17. January 2010, 12:52:30

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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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HTML5 it is a-changin'

Wednesday, 6. January 2010, 10:06:41

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Off sick with a cold, what better way to recover than by singing a song?

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What makes Google innovative

Thursday, 24. December 2009, 02:29:02

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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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Installing Truecrypt on Fedora

Monday, 7. December 2009, 12:34:15

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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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Watching videos on a Nokia smartphone

Tuesday, 15. September 2009, 05:38:49

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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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Like-minded people + good drink & food = good times!

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.

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Alphanumeric validation with PHP

Thursday, 2. July 2009, 06:11:39

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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.

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Unix Ware - Freshness with no leaks!

Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 14:20:16

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One of the things I love about living in Japan is the surprises it throws your way.

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Free online web development checkers

Wednesday, 3. June 2009, 01:13:01

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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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