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Engagingly quirky
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
WordPress 2.7.1 has a wonderful quirk of immediately redirecting the “new post” page to a page that appears to just be the row of buttons from above the editor. It’s probably a Firefox 3.1 quirk. But it’s still annoying.
Intrepidly lacking
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
I updated my desktop to the new Ubuntu release (Intrepid Ibix) This is mostly good, but I discovered a problem as a side-effect of them improving their mouse support. Now that my mouse is auto-detected with all its buttons, the side-button no longer defaults to being a middle-click. I like having the side-button do middle [...]
Ubuntu: sharing music with iTunes
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
1. sudo aptitude install mt-daapd 2. Edit /etc/mt-daapd.conf so that mp3_dir = [your music directory]. (Also any other configuration changes you might want to make; the file is well-commented.) 3. sudo /etc/init.d/mt-daapd restart Really this would work on any Debian-derived distro… but I’ve only tried it on Ubuntu. Update: It looks like mt-daapd puts an [...]
Disadvantages to a Hollywood office
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Yesterday when leaving work I stepped out the back door of our building and almost blundered through someone filming a scene for something. The back doors of our building had been made over into a hospital entrance, and someone who was the very embodiment of The Wise Old Bum was dispensing advice to people in [...]
Switch
Monday, March 24th, 2008
I’ve been running Ubuntu on my home computer for a week and a half now. That’s right, I’ve joined the “A-list blogger circle-jerk”. For certain values of “A”. Specifically, the value “F”. I’ve mostly found alternatives for all the programs I used. The only area where I’m not quite satisfied is a music player; I [...]
Three gigabytes free…ish
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
WordPress.com announced yesterday that all users get three gigabytes of upload space for free. This is a teensy upgrade from 50MB. This seems to be primarily for psychological reasons, because there’s a big fat * after the upgrade. The footnote is that Mr. Mullenweg mentions in this post that “[y]ou still need a space upgrade [...]
AIM on jabber
Friday, January 18th, 2008
AOL appears to be considering rolling out jabber access to AIM. That would be pretty awesome.
Why I can’t play Dungeon Runners
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Last night I thought to myself “hey, I know, I’ll try out Dungeon Runners!” It’s a pseudo-free pseudo-MMO, which could be described as a Diablo parody — that’s the sort of game that sounds appealing to me. Sadly, I discovered that Dungeon Runners is not a game I can play. You see, it requires that [...]
David Lynch has a blog
Friday, December 7th, 2007
It is possible that this blog’s naming scheme could be construed as being a bit egotistical. I just want to reclaim my name from popular culture! But enough of that. Who am I? I’m a 23 year old who immigrated to the USA from England when I was 17. I possess many useful insights into [...]