Monthly Archives: February 2006

Burnt Toast

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Arthur

I was near to falling asleep when tunes from (apparantly) a CBC show woke me up: Burnt Toast. It’s listed as a romantic comedy opera piece in 8 act, and it sports a list of comedians and opera singers in … Continue reading →

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Jayapura and Eden

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Arthur

To be honest, I’ve been smirking along when reading this article about scientists who apparently found new species in an undiscovered part of New Guinea. These finds are amazing, but not surprising. If there’s one word I associate with New … Continue reading →

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Good stuff

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Arthur

I saw that Markku has added my fixes to his RecentLinks plugin. You should consider updating your plugin, particularly if you run WordPress without that ‘pretty URLs’ option. Then over at Slashdot, I found a link to Goodger’s Blog discussing … Continue reading →

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Local WordPress

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

A quick guide to help you develop your ‘online site’ offline. Requirements: An offsite test server, preferably running Debian Stable (formerly ‘Sarge’). A good knowledge of MySQL, PHP and Bash Shell access to your online site. Proceed with the following … Continue reading →

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Recent-links bug

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

There’s a small bug in Rebelpixel’s recent-links plug-in: clicking the monthly archive pages always appeared to return all the recent links, instead of the (selected) month/year. A quick look in the code tells me that it goes wrong between line … Continue reading →

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Zimbra. Browse. Play Ball!

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier I was following comments that (eventually) got me stranded at Zimbra. It appears to be a collaboration server with an AJAX (ugh-the name-the-name) frontend. Closer inspection seems to reveal that the product itself is a mix of perl and … Continue reading →

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.0.1

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Arthur

I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1, which ended up taking shorter than the last time. This time there were however more individual files and directories to delete: I feel tempted to write a shell script to do this for me next … Continue reading →

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Leave Your Mail

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Arthur

Merlin of 43 folders has a golden tip for people getting too many e-mails at work. Turn it off. Well, if you’re feeling really ballsy, you could just just Quit Mail.app (ed. Apple’s main e-mail application) for a few hours … Continue reading →

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Travelling == evil

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Arthur

I was reading comments about the Woodruff story (the ABC anchor who got injured in Iraq). Currently his name is associated with what Americans call ‘The Cronkite moment’: particulary, since more reporters have been questioning their own reporting about Iraq. … Continue reading →

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A Browser Tale

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Arthur

I see that Microsoft released the second beta of IE 7, this time open for the public. Many others have commented on the release: some extremely pleased (‘RSS Platform’), others received the news with plenty of skepticism. I’m not impressed, … Continue reading →

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A Dutch “Go”

Posted on February 2, 2006 by Arthur

I see that the Dutch parliament voted ‘Yes’ for a mission to Afghanistan, a vote that made it in this mornings CBC’s ‘Morning news’ (Oh, we did have a dumping of snow yesterday too, but we managed as usual). According … Continue reading →

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Particle research, mr President?

Posted on February 1, 2006 by Arthur

There’s a cheer of happiness going on in the blogosphere: we have a president that supports science. Well, not really, but he is all for alternative energy like, uh: To change how we power our homes and offices, we will … Continue reading →

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