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I recently visited the Carmelite Church (Igreja do Carmo) in Faro whilst on holiday in the Algarve. Looks quite nice from the outside…

The jQuery Placeholder Plugin provides support for the placeholder HTML5 attribute in browsers that do not support it.

This question was put to Chris Skinner on BBC News earlier. His answer?

3 to 6 months before the next election.

The Simile Timeline allows you to make beautiful, interactive timelines for web pages using only JavaScript. It is fairly flexible and allows you to create timelines with intervals of Seconds, Hours and Days right up to Centuries and Millenniums.

Its taken a while, but the Linux version of Google’s Chrome is really starting to catch up with its Windows counterpart, both in terms of features and stability.

Google have launched a website in an effort to teach users about their web browser.

After a lot of work I have finally released the new Kino Search extensions for Foswiki.

In a standard Foswiki setup there is a topic in every web called WebTopicList, which is linked to from the side bar as Index. By default it simply lists all the topics in one big list, as shown below (or view on foswiki.org):

For a while I have been using Gmail Tasks to try and organise myself. While it is nicely integrated into Gmail, I would quite like to be able to access it without needing to be in Gmail. Having looked at http://mail.google.com/tasks/ and found there was no interface I assumed there was none, until today when I found http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig.

I recently wanted to run a set of commands on a Linux machine at some point in the future. I knew about using cron to schedule a set of commands at defined intervals, but I only wanted to run the commands once at a specific time on a specific date. After searching the internet I found the at command, which allowed me to do exactly what I wanted.