Archives for December 2008

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Always give yourself an Xmas present

...And mine arrived this afternoon. Just stunningly beautiful, and the picture does it no justice whatsoever. You have to hold one in your hands, weigh its heft, feel the clicks as you wind the handle, peer at the little digits. […]

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Twitter notification broken with Graffiti 1.2?

Nope, but, boy, was it a coincidence! I use Scott Watermasysk's Graffiti Plug-in library to add Twitter notifications when I add new posts to this blog. Well, the weekend before last, I upgraded to Graffiti CMS 1.2 and blogged about it. The plug-in duly tweeted it. No problem. […]

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Fun with multipart equations in Word 2007

In my latest article for PCPlus, I had to replicate an equation with several clauses, like this one from Wikipedia: […]

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Dipping my dev toe in the iPhone water

If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know I've been costing up what it would take to become an iPhone developer (especially given my penchant for Windows PCs and development and hence no Apple hardware). I've got a vague idea for an app, but then realize I'm just not thinking along the right lines... […]

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Windows 7 installed

Back at PDC this year in LA, the attendees got a pre-CTP of Windows 7. Finally, I found the time to install it on my little Dell XPS M1210, using the disk I'd been using as a trash disk for my wife's PC during its travails. […]

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Avatars configured for comments

A minor but quick change: I've included the ability for comments to show an avatar. Essentially sign up at gravatar.com, upload an image that "represents" you, and it'll then appear here if you comment. […]

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Dell XPS Tech Support...

...rocks. […]

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Now running Graffiti CMS 1.2

In the gap in between two shows, after posting the last blog, I downloaded Graffiti CMS 1.2 and upgraded this site. Using the shared WiFi in the theatre it took a little while, but that was all upload and download times. The actual "upgrade" was practically instantaneous ("copy these new files over the existing ones"). […]

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It's scammy letter day!

It must be my birthday or something for, in opening up all the mail that came while I was away in the office in California (my wife doesn't open junk mail or bills), I came across two letters that are deceitful to the nth degree and borderline scams in my opinion. […]

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Quickie Chalk extension for the tags issue

I mentioned in my previous blog post that the workaround I had for displaying the tags for a post vertically, rather than as a horizontal, comma-separated list, was flawed. […]

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