Blog of Eli Burford

Windows 7 Impressions

Eli — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:03:25 +0000

Firstly, a little background. For the last 5+ years I’ve used Windows XP, never been bothered to try Vista (especially after it mostly received negative feedback). But I have never felt the need to upgrade; even now, I didn’t particularly feel the need to upgrade to Windows 7 RC, but I actually wanted to after reading [...]

My Firefox Addons

Eli — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:55:24 +0000

I felt a certain need to publish something, and something that my be remotely useful to someone. So here is a list of Firefox extensions that I find somewhat necessary for living. Mozilla’s extensive collection of addons is the main reason why I haven’t been able to swap over to Google’s Chrome browser. Adblock Plus Starting with the [...]

Hyperlinks Should be Underlined

Eli — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:53:03 +0000

It’s considered common practice now that hyperlinks on websites should be underlined. Well, not all links need to be underlined, just the ones that are amongst paragraph text, as they need to stand out for a user to find them. I found a problem exactly like this while reading this article from Gawker. My brother said [...]

Say Goodbye to IE

Eli — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:55:56 +0000

A little while ago now I discovered a neat little site: DearIE6, and I used it to say goodbye to Internet Explorer. Very cool idea. And to be quite honest, I don’t use IE. My friend that does my coding work checks on occasion (I hope) if the code works in IE, so that’s good enough [...]

A Couple of Awesome Commercials

Eli — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:37:09 +0000

Here are a few of my favorite commercials from YouTube: Any recommendations?

“Sorry, but you can’t view this because you’re not from the U.S.”

Eli — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:36:56 +0000

Ohhh how this hurts! It should just say “Sorry, but you cannot view this because you’re from a country outside of the real world.” This will always happen when you (outside of the US) try to view a video on Hulu, so just search YouTube for an alternative video.

Must. Publish. Something!

Eli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:36:34 +0000

I keep getting the urge to publish something up here, but I keep getting turned off. I feel the need to redesign my Blog, something much more minimal and more focused on the content. Something like Gridalicious (sort of). Anyway, I’ll leave you with a video:

Attending TAFE in 2009

Eli — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:23:33 +0000

So I got into the Certificate IV in Multimedia at TAFE. I’ll be updating my Twitter more than my Blog, but hopefully soon enough I’ll turn my Blog into more of a social thing, so it gets updates from Delicious, Flickr, Twitter, etc. Cheerio! Oh and also, I got an iPhone! Sorry about not [...]

How Do You Pronounce “Linux”?

Eli — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:33:26 +0000

It’s plagued me for a few days now since I heard that the word was meant to be pronounced as “line uks” rather than “linniks”. I’ve always pronounced it as linniks, and apparently that’s OK, according to this article over at Suse Root. A good read, however, the accompanying video doesn’t actually work. I got what [...]

Made on a PC

Eli — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:10:44 +0000

I’ve noticed a lot of these “Made on a Mac” notices at the bottom of websites, but no “Made on a PC” notices. I’m gonna change this though. Once I get around to it (not likely) I’m gonna add some notices to my sites, just for kicks On another note, I’ve been very lazy [...]