Luke Smith Write today, wrong tomorrow

Target ‘in’ xhtml

I've been looking at making my websites more compliant, especially xhtml 1.1, using ASP.NET v2.0. To ensure ASP.NET outputs XHTML 1.1 strict html you can add the following element into the web.config file < xhtmlConformance mode="Strict" />> However it doesn't seem to stop the AdRotator control rendering a target attribute on...

Did scoble pull a blog entry?

I got a feed update in feeddemon and one was scobles titled 'The $100 million decision'. I thought it was worthy of a forward to a friend to see what he thinks (after all he hates the adverts) but upon going to the post entry the message 'Sorry, no posts matched...

IQ: Apparently i’m an Insightful Linguist!

Your IQ score is 131! You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift...

musicam - “Inspired by Synesthesia, an ambient HCI device in the form of a modern color organ is born” D. Yau, 2005

It’s internal examiner day #1 for my uni mates today, showing off their final year projects.   Derek has made a cool HCI webcam application, which plays different sounds depending on which colors are present in the image. You can even play some little tunes on it if you can...

PS3 News: Sony you cannot be serious!

What are Sony playing at? Taking a page from Microsoft's launch, the PS3 will support a hard drive, but it may be something you have to buy seperately. To make matters much, much, much, insanely worse, the 60 GB hard drive will be REQUIRED to play games. That's right, you...

Imagine Cup 2006

Congratulations to Andy Sterland and the rest of Team "Three Pair" who won the UK SDC Imagine Cup final. Now Andy has 2 of the titles under his belt! Have fun in India

msn is closing down

Don’t you hate it when people forward chain emails saying that Microsoft and Intel will give you $1000 for every email you forward to a friend? Think about it people that’s just stupid, think before you press forward. I got a new one today, not seen this before. >Hey it...

Mac OS X hacked in 30 minutes

30 minutes and you can hack Mac OS X   Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.   I wonder what Foyle and...

We could win Eurovision this year

As everyone knows Eurovision is all about political voting and not the 'awesome' talent of the individuals singing. So this year the UK have voted one of the stupidest songs ever to represent us. The song is so bad and tacky it makes it win worthy for the circus of...

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Excellent news for Xbox 360 owners, one of the greatest games of my childhood next to New Zealand story and Manic Miner is soon to be coming to the Live Marketplace. That’s right, paperboy!