alex.mullr.net/blog

Cool little feature that I believe is unique to Break’s video service – in that I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet.

Every video has a “play this next” ticker that scrolls through related videos while the current one is playing. On hover, it displays a preview of the related video and once clicked it changes [...]

I spent a bit of time this evening updating my Last.fm scrobbler (if you can call it that), which I have written about before.
It simply makes it a lot easier to use: enter your username and password, click the button (I know the enter key doesn’t work, and I hate myself for not being able [...]

Here’s a question I’d like to throw out to the crowd: what am I supposed to do if I want to keep track of things that other people have uploaded to the web – in short, how do I track other people’s data?
Let me give an example to help explain: I’m at the Future of [...]

I’m not too sure where I stand on how Twitter is evolving and growing at the moment. Guess if I was forced to opine, it would be that they’re not developing, improving or evolving fast enough. I know they’re trying to keep the service simple, but the lack of a few would-be-amazing features (groups, anyone?) [...]

I quite like random little anecdotes/stories/tales, so thought I’d share:
There’s an office here that the porters look after the keys for. If you want to get in the office when there’s nobody else around, you have to ask them for a key; they check your university card against a list of people who are authorised [...]

#code269 {background-color:#eee;padding:10px;font-family:Verdana, Monaco, Consolas, Courier;font-size:11px;}

Shell scripting is really pretty good fun. I’m nowhere near claiming to be an expert (hell, I’ve been doing it for about three weeks now), but I kind of feel like I’m getting somewhere. Here’s some stuff I’ve been messing around with, hopefully accompanied by some clear explanations that, if nothing [...]