I specialise in creative use of digital media, copywriting, and bright ideas.

I'm passionate about all things digital, electronic music, graphic design/typography, public information campaigns, theatre, and many weird and wonderful things in between.


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Bash script to backup OS X apps

As a happy OS X user with a healthy distrust for Apple and the App Store, I wanted to back up my apps to a DVD-R. After having to reinstall OS X one day, I reached for my backed-up apps disc, only to find a significant problem: it takes ages to copy them back. So long, in fact, that I ended up downloading them all from the App Store again, which rather defeated the point of backing them up.

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Installing get_iplayer on OS X 10.6.8 x64

I always seem to end up searching for half an hour to figure out how to get get_iplayer working under OS X Snow Leopard, so this is more a reminder to myself than anything else.

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Bash script to bulk check UK domains

I am trying to learn Bash scripting. This one performs Nominet whois lookups (checks the availability of .uk domains). Disclaimer: I don't know how well-formed it is - probably not very. Use at your own peril!

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