If..Else Log

It's reassuring to know that of all the things you can do with the on demand, electronic dictionary found in OS X Tiger, one of the first things you do is look for swear words. It's also reassuring to see that british slang hasn't been neglected…

Benjamin Adam, web developer magician, writes on using PHP and GD to create dynamic graphics like his wonderful mood graph.

Playing Advance Wars is a painstaking process. It's not so much trial and error as trial and education, each mistake teaching you a little more about the impeccable clockwork that powers the game's simple, stunning mechanics. And, it turns out, playing Advance Wars isn't a very different process from making Advance Wars.

Edge, the only gaming magazine worth reading[1], has published their Advance Wars "Making of" article online.

I'm now using Jonas Rabbe's absolutely awesome Super Archive plugin for my Archive Index. Category and Month/Year/Day archives still utilise the old archive code that I'd previously written (which is a better fit in those instances).

I think Dulux should strike out a bargain with Apple and just release an iPod white colour scheme. I mean, everyone is already unofficially using the colour. It's become the magnolia of electrical finishes (taking over the crown from piano black and brushed aluminium).

As an aside, I like the color scheme section on Dulux's site. It's colour pornography.

So finally, all the rumours will be confirmed.

Incidentally, do you want to know what I think about the design (probably not)? It's fine, just a bit underwhelming and unexciting.

When Rob Winter's returned from holiday, his desk was not quite as he'd left it.

Molting cicadas captured on flickr

The Colonel gets a fresh lick of paint.

random($foo) has a good set of links for computer names.