Archive for the 'Geeky Goodness' Category

Posting from my iPhone

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

I’m typing this on my brand new iPhone. I think I need smaller fingers.

I can even add a photo. This inane drivel is brought to you by the WordPress app for iPhone.


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Internet Exploder

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

I’m currently working on a web site for a client. It adheres to all standards, and so it’s been displaying well in all the web browsers I’ve been testing it in. And then I go and test it in Internet Explorer on Windows, and of course it doesn’t work. I’m just going to tell this


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Microsoft Windows XP End User Licence Agreement

Friday, April 28th, 2006

I just saw this when I was reading the Windows XP EULA:
The software may not be used by more than two (2) processors at any one time on any single workstation computer.
That seems to suggest that MS won’t let you install XP on a machine with more than two processors. I don’t know what that


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Issues with MySQL, PHP and Mac OS X 10.4.5

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

I was having som weird issues with performance on my PowerBook under Mac OS X 10.4.3, so I decided to upgrade to 10.4.5.
After my machine rebooted I could no longer connect to my MySQL databases through PHP. A quick web search turned up this MacRumors forum post. I just had to change a line in


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On the dangers of blogging

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

(Or rather, on the dangers of listening to blogging)
Now, everyone has the right to be heard (with obvious exceptions). But with everyone clamouring to be heard, it makes it rather hard to know who you should be listening to.
Robert Scoble is a “Microsoft geek blogger”, and technical evangelist. His blog is consistently among the top


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Today’s interesting links

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

As reported by the BBC, Norway is planning to build a “doomsday vault” inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world’s crops.
I’ve just stumbled upon egoSurf. From their description:

“You enter your name and your blogs web address. We search google and find links to


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Command Line Capers

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

I often want to do something at OS X’s command line, but I can never remember most of the (often obscurely named) commands. So I head on over to Google and I try to find the command I need. And I usually spend ages before I find it. So I’m going to start posting these


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Google Earth for Mac!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Google Earth is now available for Mac OS 10.4 and up.:
Update:
This is the Target store near Springwood. In this day and age of terrorism, I think that’s just asking for trouble.

Target’s target

My place from space!Image © 2005 DigitalGlobe


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