Thanks for visiting PreshWeb, my own little corner of the web.
This site contains some permanent content, but a lot of new content
that I create gets posted to my Wordpress-powered blog,
and on my wiki for
technical notes etc.
- HTML::Table::FromDatabase released
I’ve just released a new Perl module to CPAN, HTML::Table::FromDatabase. It’ll hit CPAN mirrors soon.
It subclasses HTML::Table, and its purpose is to simplify a fairly common task, of taking data from a database query and d
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- Big fire + explosions in Ontario
Apparently a big propane depot in Ontario exploded early this morning (around 3.30 am EST) - check the explosion in this video shortly after 1:50 -
Reports I read said that there has been just one casualty, a fireman who died of “no
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- This country is going fucking crazy
Nothing the post title doesn’t cover - over 500 police staff to take training to understand sex-change weirdo.
Seriously, WTF?
- xmkmf missing - install imake
I was installing a fairly old piece of software on Arch Linux, and it was failing because I didn’t have xmkmf installed. After some longer Googling than would be expected, I found that xmkmf is part of imake (which was distributed wi
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- KDE 4.1 - very nice
KDE 4.1 was released today, and is already in Arch Linux’s repos, so I decided to update and give it a try.
First impressions - pretty slick indeed, especially after turning on proper compositing support for various funky effects incl
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- Economic Models and Business Strategies explained with Cows
Shamelessly robbed from Metcountymounty’s post on Sheepdogs & Wolves (but also seen several times on other sites… yes, it’s an old one )
I think Britain most definately fits under the Socialism description here.
COMM
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- Facebook Chat for Pidgin
Just found Facebook Chat for Pidgin - a plugin for the popular Pidgin (formerly Gaim) multi-network IM client.
It allows you to chat to your friends on Facebook using Pidgin rather than the little chat widget on the Facebook site, and supp
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- Free music from independent artists
Just a quick post to mention Jamendo - a site I discovered a couple of days ago offering lots of free music from various independent artists.
So far I’ve downloaded several albums and a handful of EPs, and I’m impressed - some o
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- Why men don?t write advice columns?
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything, so here’s a quick post blatantly robbing a post from a friend’s blog (original post on Sarah’s blog here)
Dear Walter:
I hope you can help me here. The other
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- New bike: CBR600FV
Been a while since I blogged anything, so just a quick post to say I have a new bike
My poor old GPZ was getting a bit tired, so I’ve now got a nice black 1997 CBR600FV. It’s a lovely ride, and a lot more powerful than the GP
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- Wordpress updated
It’s been a little while, but I finally got round to updating Wordpress again.
My copy of WP is checked out from Subversion so it’s nice and easy to update - I’m now running 2.5-RC3, and it’s quite slick (although it
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- Cunning advert
An advert from a flooring company, looks quite innocuous at first glance:
But, look at it upside down, cover the lady’s head and glass, and it takes on a whole different meaning….
It looks like this must have been done on purpo
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- Friday fun post 2008/03/12
OK, finally doing another Friday fun post!
Husband says; “When I’m gone you’ll never find another man like me”.
Wife replied; “What makes you think I’d want another man like you!”
When I was young I
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- Prick with a fork?
Have to repost this from today’s DailyWTF.
This is suppose to be a real product packaging for some sausages for a supermarket in Ireland, before the supermarket relised the problem and withdrew the product.
Background: Ainsley Harri
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- Family (mis)-fortunes
OK, these are old, but they still gave me a chuckle.
Contestants from the ITV (UK) Family Fortunes game-show are asked to guess the most popular answers to questions posed in a survey. These are some of the answers given.
I particularly li
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