Burst Attention Span

Ever felt like you just don’t have enough computers? As a web developer, I often need to test sites on a number of target platforms and browsers but it isn’t practical to have a machine for each setup.

Late last year, VMWare released a player version of their full Virtual Machine Workstation product. This utility uses ready made disk images or ‘appliances’ with pre-installed OS and software. The only restriction was that the player cannot create new virtual machines. Was a restriction… :)
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I have an exciting new task to take on this year! My long-time friend and agony-uncle, Mark [right of picture], is getting married in 2007 and he's asked me to be his best man. I'm understandably proud :)

Not to be outdone by anyone else though, he's having multiple best men due to the geographical distribution of his best buddies. I'm the Swiss best man, but there will be a UK-based one (doing all the work!) and one in America. We will be having a stag night in each location!

It should come as no surprise (to people that know me) that one of my tasks involves creating a website for the happy couple. It will serve as a kind of wedding list, but not for fondue sets and toastie makers or vases and cutlery sets and all that crap – they've already set up home together and have better taste than your average wedding guest – instead they will have a list of experiences for people to purchase for them.

The honeymoon will take in Asia and Australia (yet again, lucky bastards!), so the experiences will mostly be in those regions allowing some rather extravagant possibilities which I will update you on in a future post. Watch this space for more news on Mark and Chantelle's excellent adventure…

Due to the large amount of comment spam from people advertising online card games, property, and mail order potency drugs I have decided to turn off comments to articles until further notice. Sorry.

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Nice little tool. Web Color Converter saves going into photoshop to convert colo(u)rs :)