Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic

Date:Sunday Aug 31, 2008

links for 2008-08-31 • welcome to vue cinemas - the ultimate cinema experience Our other local Cinema - 'Star City' in Nechells, although we don't go too often as it went through a spate of being 'stabbing central' at night and hasn't shaken off that image well so far. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Category: Link

Date:Saturday Aug 30, 2008

links for 2008-08-30 • Blogging Roller: delicous.com Blog Posting tool Maybe someday soon... • ..... View Comments

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Date:Friday Aug 29, 2008

My banana yellow Yamaha V-Max • And a series of posts about motorbikes wouldn't be complete without my own current ride, this lovely banana yellow Yamaha V-Max. • ..... View Comments 4 Trackbacks

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Category: Home

Horkan - Hungarian for 'snort' • I'm not winding you up on this one, check this out from Dictionary.com: I should think that a number of you will be more than a. • ..... View Comments

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Date:Thursday Aug 28, 2008

A pint after work... • Kieron, Darren, Ian and Graham at the Fine Line. • ..... View Comments

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Date:Wednesday Aug 27, 2008

Three pals bikes; a BSA low-rider, a Yamaha Genesis EXUP Streetfighter, and a mint Honda VFR • Keeping with this weeks motorbike theme, here's some photos of three pals bikes that I helped them sell on ebay last year. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 18:00 GMT

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Graham Helsby and his *BIG* sandwich • Here's my mate Graham with a very large sarny... • ..... View Comments

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Date:Tuesday Aug 26, 2008

What do Facebook, del.icio.us, and last.fm, all have in common this month? • Yes, that's right; they are all suffering from functionality issues due to design flaws introduced in their last look and feel upgrades. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 18:00 GMT

Category: Blog

Castle Bromwich Hall Church Fete • Our local C of E Church, St. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 08:00 GMT

Category: Life

Date:Monday Aug 25, 2008

A visit to the National Motorcycle Museum • Yep, it's Dad boring the poor kids senseless with the absolutely wonderful National Motorcycle Museum; we live that close that we've been so often they've only just let me take them there again... • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 18:00 GMT

Category: Home

Last years photos from Sun's Customer Engineering Conference 2007 (CEC 2007) • Found these the other day, posted up to Flickr... • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Date / Time: / 08:00 GMT

Category: Work

Date:Monday Aug 18, 2008

links for 2008-08-18 • FAQs - blogs.sun.com - wikis.sun.com Sun blogs FAQ. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 16:35 GMT

Category: Link

Date:Friday Aug 15, 2008

Microsoft's very public "Blue Screen of Death" crash out at the Beijing Olympics • First reported by RiverCoolCool on his blog: http://rivercoolcool.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D6F05428A2B8CB48!1570.entry Then by Gizmondo: http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting Now it's at the Register: . • ..... View Comments 4 Trackbacks

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Date / Time: / 14:49 GMT

Category: Blog

Date:Thursday Aug 14, 2008

Follow me on Twitter, you know you want to... • Seeing as I've been blogging about Twitter and it's new lack of support for outbound SMS for Europe, the UK and the rest of the World (well, apart from the US, Canada and India, that is)... • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 23:57 GMT

Category: Blog

New Sun and SCC Partner Website • Check out the new Sun / SCC partner website here: http://www.scc-sun.com Specialist Computer Centres (SCC) are one of Sun's main partner organisations in the UK and you can learn more about them, and Sun UK's reseller partners here: http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/contact/partners/ This has. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 10:34 GMT

Category: Work

No outbound Twitter SMS for Europe, the UK and, frankly, most of the World • I received the following email this morning, apparently they'll be no more outbound Twitter SMS for Europe, the UK and most of the rest of the World. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Date / Time: / 08:53 GMT

Category: Blog

Date:Monday Aug 11, 2008

Roller Weblogger improved blogroll display code for use with icons and images • Here's some code that improves on the default Roller Weblogger blogroll code to ensure that if you include an image / icon for your blogroll entries it displays the image and the blogroll entry name (good if your using icons). • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 13:42 GMT

Category: Blog

Roller Weblogger blog post tag link code for blogs.sun.com, technorati and del.icio.us • Here's some code that produces tag links to four popular tag destinations, your blog, blogs.sun.com, technorati and del.icio.us (for your Roller Weblogger based blog, as the code is velocity). • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 13:08 GMT

Category: Blog

Roller Weblogger language translation with Google using JavaScript and Velocity • So here's the latest version of my Google Translation code for Roller Weblogger, as used to host blogs.sun.com (or 'bsc' as we in Sun call it). • ..... View Comments