Andrew "Lord d'Eath" Gillard's blog about stuff http://www.lorddeath.net/ http://www.lorddeath.net/News/59/LED_Light_Bulb_Comparison/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:00:58 +0000 http://www.lorddeath.net/News/59/ Background As part of our attempts to lower our currently-£180/month electricity bill, we've been looking at replacing some of our light bulbs with lower-Wattage equivalents. Despite only being built 12 months ago, this house was fitted with some pretty ... http://www.lorddeath.net/News/58/Dell_Studio_1735_Laptop/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:21:21 +0000 http://www.lorddeath.net/News/58/ I recently purchased a new laptop - a Dell Studio 1735. Its price tag of £1250 is high, but acceptable given the specification and options I added: 2.1GHz T8100 Core2Duo CPU 3GB RAM 320GB 5400 rpm hard disk ATI/AMD Radeon HD Mobility 3650 256MB 17... http://www.lorddeath.net/News/57/UTF8_Support/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:54:50 +0000 http://www.lorddeath.net/News/57/ After spending ages working with UTF-8 the other day, as I mentioned in my previous post, I've finally added UTF-8 support to this site. Both comments and posts by me are now able to contain all kinds of crazy characters without resorting to complex HTML ... http://www.lorddeath.net/News/56/UTF8_in_PHP_and_MySQL/ Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:44:59 +0000 http://www.lorddeath.net/News/56/ I spent the best part of today researching how to properly handle Unicode - specifically UTF-8 - with PHP and MySQL for Web applications. Since this is something that has stumped me for a while, I decided to make this post about it. This will be as much ... http://www.lorddeath.net/News/55/My_Xbox_360_Died_Again/ Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:28:57 +0000 http://www.lorddeath.net/News/55/ Update (2007/09/22): I should probably update this to say that on the 30th August I received a refurbished Xbox 360 from Microsoft that not only works (no problems thus far, and I've had many a 5-hour gaming session on it), but it also considerably quiete...