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Fuzzmz
I am the guy behind this site, the voice beneath the text and the person who tracks the stats and replies to your comments. You can reach me at master [at] fuzz.me.uk (same email address for Google Talk).
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Posts by Fuzzmz
x out of 10
Nov 21st
I don’t usually use this to share images and videos (I have Twitter for that :D ) but I ran over this on Matilda’s blog and thought it was worth sharing with the world.
According to that list I’m mostly fucked, and not in a good way.
So, how many out of ten do you mark on that one?
Anti-vaccine nutters
Oct 30th
I don’t get people that are against vaccines because they think it leads to autism; it’s sad to see them stuck in their fear because of a lack of understanding on how vaccines work or because they’re just stupid (in the end you can cure lack of knowledge but not stupidity).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about moderation and don’t support getting every vaccine available just for the hell of it, but there are some I consider good to be had, especially the early ones they give you before/in school. I also don’t have anything against people who have rational reasons to not getting vaccinated; the only problem I have is with irrational people. More >
Fanboys
Oct 29th
Let’s talk a bit about fanboys, shall we? Especially about Apple fanboys versus Microsoft ones – yes, we’ll leave the Linux people out of this one. Thing is, I haven’t really seen that many MS fanboys out there and that, infused by a couple of tweets, lead to this post. I can’t say that it’s very coherent due to the hour it was written at but I said I won’t draft thing anymore or else they’ll never get published so here it goes.
Push to hub, bub
Oct 26th
If you find the title strange just take a look at the address bar and you’ll see what I’m going to talk about.
I read a lot of websites and to make following them easier I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds; I know that this may sound quaint when the fashion is to just follow the website on Twitter and get instant updates¹ instead of waiting for the feed reader (in my case Google Reader) to poll the server to see if anything new is posted, but using an RSS reader has one major advantage over Twitter: I can read them any time and choose for myself which items get marked as read or not since on Twitter they buried under more and more new content. More >
Apple, Java, and the App Store
Oct 21st
Apple released an interesting update for its version of Java mentioning that at this point the Java platform is considered deprecated and that it may not be part of future Mac OS releases.
As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated.
This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X. The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.
This is concerning because at this current time Apple’s implementation is the only one available for the Apple platform which means that users reliant on Java could be stuck in limbo once support drops. More >
Army of Awesome – a small problem
Oct 20th
Mozilla recently launched a new initiative called the Army of Awesome which aims to help users with Firefox problems and questions by providing an easy way for other users to answer them; I find this to be a nice effort that works well within the “by the community for the community”/crowdsourcing thing Mozilla has going on. More >
The trash issue
Oct 18th
I think we’ve all seen it before, especially the ones that had to do tech support at one time or another: users deleting their emails and then having a fit when the deleted items gets automatically purged.
On one hand I can relate to the user while on the other I can’t stop to think what the heck where they thinking when trying to store files there? Do you usually store your important printed documents in the trash can you have near to your desk? More >
bit.ly URL shortening in Mystique
Jul 7th
As you can see, this blog is using the Mystique theme; one of the nice aspects of it is that on a post page it gives you the option to share the article via a number of websites, including Twitter. To do so it shortens the URL but uses TinyURL by default, a service I for one am not a great fan of.
I am a fan of bit.ly though, and as such I’ve modified the function that does the URL shortening to use bit.ly instead of TinyURL. More >
Under construction
Jul 5th
Hey guys, everything here is still under construction so things may not work properly for now. Things will pick up as soon as I find some time to get things done around here :)