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Laconic Llamas

Stephen Fry has quite a devious sense of humour and to celebrate over 50,000 followers came up with a challenge: to write a 140 character Twitter containing exactly 50 Ls and win a yet unknown prize.

Incredibly hard when you think about it, since you’re also supposed to append the hashtag “#L” to help Stephen track this making your words need a 36% hit rate of Ls. All very silly.

A side effect of this is it seems Twitter’s own search can’t cope with single character hashtags, but you can keep on top of the entries at http://hashtags.org/tag/l

Initially I struggled to avoid thinking about this all week while busy at work, but I couldn’t stop myself writing a short PHP script to check the validity of an entry. If you’re so inclined you may make use of it below.

Anyway, here’s my entry..

Add comment January 23rd, 2009

Go petition the UK Gov for accessibility

Ian Lloyd has posted an article on a petition to the UK Government on better web accessibility. I’ve put my name down, if you’re a UK resident go and do the same… you know you want to.

Add comment November 30th, 2006

XML and Web Standards talk

I had the pleasure of my first professional talk last week courtesty of CaMedia on the merry subject of What can XML do for you? The talk went very well, a nice group attended and I hope I managed to communicate the basics of what XML is and can be used for. Our online pharmacy is the perfect resource for people to get their drugs without any hassles or awkwardness. cialis We work hard to make sure you save money every time you shop with us. levitrasoma At our online store, you pay less and get more. viagra
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Add comment October 20th, 2006

Time tracking with categories, Basecamp style

37 Signals stirred things up recently when they unveiled the time tracking facility to Basecamp, their popular project management system. We at Studio 24 have been using Basecamp to help organise our hectic workload over the past few months and have found it to be an excellent tool. The time tracking feature just makes it all that much better.

Continue Reading 5 comments September 30th, 2005

About

I’m Simon R Jones, web developer / designer since 1998. Started out at what is now Anglia Ruskin University developing their site and the challenging task of teaching staff how to update their web pages in notepad. Started my own company, Studio 24, in 1999 and have been running it ever since.

Apart from business things I’ve been more heavily involved in PHP development of late, working on e-commerce, CMS and FAQ helpdesk systems. We’ve started to look into Zend framework a lot recently, so I hope to be able to contribute to that project soon.

If you want to get in touch about work please contact me via Studio 24

And yes, at some point in the next century I’ll create my own design for this blog. But time, as ever, seems to be a very scarce resource these days.

I also have a less techy blog over at www.kateandsi.co.uk/blog/ that the missus occassionally contributes to as well.

Add comment June 15th, 2005

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Laconic Llamas

Go petition the UK Gov for accessibility

XML and Web Standards talk

Time tracking with categories, Basecamp style

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