September 12th, 2009
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Christine, Dawn and Kirsty are three textile designers and makers who have come together to create Diva Design Studio. This collaboration has led to the opening of their beautiful studio and shop at Logie Steading Visitor Centre in Moray, Scotland. Here you will find exciting, innovative and individually designed items.
These include bags, scarves and fashion accessories made using sumptuous fabrics and threads or hand-felted, along with decorative items for the home, textile art, cards and felt, fibre and thread packs to inspire you to make your own art.
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Art, Craft, CSS, GIMP, HTML, jQuery, PHP, Template, Wordpress, Work
Work
As I have no doubt mentioned before I game on the PC a fair amount. I moved my main PC too far away from my router to make a connection using a Gigabit LAN cable; my preffered choice. I started playing a bit of Counter Strike 1.6 and noticed periodic lag spikes; which I had never encountered prior to switching to wireless. After some trawling around on Google I found the cause, a service in Microsoft Vista called WLAN AutoConfig which is similar to the Wireless Zero Configuration service in Windows XP; incase the same thing is happening. Read the rest of this entry »
Gaming, Lag, Microsoft, Ping, Tip, Vista, Wireless
Vista
As you may or may not know WordPress has a default visual editor to make editing posts and pages more visual and easier to accomplish for the generic user. This in theory is a good idea, however it often does not work the way you want it to! For example I often wish to post code using the pre tag, the visual editor will automatically change special characters to their ASCII HTML encoded value and thus render some areas of the page or post unreadable. From a web standards point of view this is very good of WordPress, as it forces the page to be valid HTML. If you still would like to turn off visual editor, do the following steps in order – Read the rest of this entry »
ASCII, HTML, Pre, Tips, Visual Editor, Web Standards, Wordpress
Tips, Wordpress
