My ear!

Some pics of me stressing over the results section of my dissertation, and close ups of my ear by my nuts arty housemate :tongue:

Local Apache, SQL and PHP systems

I must confess, I don’t really understand SQL, PHP etc but I do program CSS layouts for sites that use these technologies. Therefore, I needed a way of running these locally. Apparently, i’m not the only one, as there are many of these packages. They are called LAMP – Linux Apache MySQL and PHP on […]

Contemporary jewellery sites I like

http://www.elementjewellery.com http://www.orro.co.uk/index http://soldering-on.co.uk/index.htm – I love the jewellery and the whole “tone” of the site text :cheerful: http://www.shimara.com http://www.katrinjaeger.com (And to all those that are still making their whole sites in Flash, please stop it…)

On critical psychology, power and marginalisation…

It’s all a mess. Let’s start again.

There is the idea that “things” are stable, that they exist outside of our discourses of them and that they can be universally judged and graded. There also exists the concept of post-modernism, where each perspective or theory is given equal validity as a local, communal construction. Final philosophies are shown as the constructions that they are.

Eco living starts here….

I plan on building a sustainable house at some point, but there are also 101 things I can do right now to reduce my effects on the world. Found http://lighterfootstep.com/index.php today, that has an article on “10 first steps”. We already have a council recycling bin (that is too small for five of us, cue […]

Goodbye “bargain demon”

I have always had a thing for buying things on the cheap.  They usually turn out to be inferior, or things that I didn’t actually want.  I have a pile of cheap speakers.  That I have never used.  That makes them expensive speakers/ornaments. Bargain Demon is a good way of describing this insecurity fuelled scrimping.  […]