England this week has been subjected to the most snow we’ve ever had in years! Every resident in the UK woke up monday morning with a blanket of snow covering everything. On Tuesday the snow combined with ice closed over 100 schools in Nottingham and caused major roads to be closed due to them being too dangerous (Some 13% gradient sloped roads) and now thinking that the snow has melted away, but it has returned today! There is 2cm – 5cm snow on the ground across parts of the UK. In Nottingham alone over 250 schools are closed, the roads are really bad and traffic is heavy.

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strong>Since it’s been snowing in Nottingham today and I’ve come down with a cold, I’ve been staying indoors, Although during College, all of us have been playing in the snow (Don’t judge, we’re all still young at heart!) but I’ve been playing around with the rounded corners effect in CSS3, now in my article Getting ready for CSS3 I listed a few major additions that CSS3 will bring to the web, I mentioned Shadows, multiple backgrounds and some more, but another great addition in CSS3 will be rounded corners.

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A localhost is a developers best friend when it comes to testing out server side scripts etc. Much like a web-server, a localhost is a space which is offline but allows you to view/test server side code as if it was a real online server, but infact you will be creating a server which can only be accessed by you. There are many ways to create an localhost but there is one easy newbie friendly way to go about it, and that is by installing Apache web server on your computer. This method is very simple and easy to follow.

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WordPress has something called loops in it’s code. There are various loops in WordPress that can perform various functions such as display WordPress pages in a navigation bar automatically instead of hard coding it, displaying recent posts etc. but if your a serious blogger then you’ll probably want to know the code that runs your blog. So here’s some must have WordPress loops for you and your WordPress website.

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I am a owner of the lovely PlayStation Portable (PSP) and I think it’s one of Sony’s great achievements, in my opinion I think it’s the best handheld out there and possibly will be for a while. I was fortunate to be bought one for Christmas a couple of years ago, and since then have always loved it. I love my PSP, but how I use it my sound like I abuse it, you see the PSP has firmware installed which is essentially the life functions of the PSP. It controls all the settings of the PSP and also manages all of the capabilities, however Sony also have firmware in place to control some features which are restricted and locked away in each firmware update.

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