Archive for January, 2007
Calvin and hobbes
Even though we don’t get snow here, these Calvin and Hobbes comics are still hilarious
Associating files with no file extension on Windows XP
It seems file extensions aren’t so much of a requirement on Linux, and through my various Mozilla experiments I tend to end up with a lot of files with no extension. Windows doesn’t let me associate them with Notepad (actually my notepad.exe file is Notepad2, but that’s another story) and makes me right click and [...]
Humidity Sucks
I don’t care if it gets up to 40˚C (hell, maybe even 45˚C), just so long as it remains dry heat. I can’t stand humidity, even if it’s only 25˚C
Updating Wordpress via SVN
Updating Wordpress via SVN is about a million times easier than updating it the old way.
The one problem I have with that guide is that it directs users to use the trunk version of Wordpress from SVN - this is in fact very dangerous and can cause all sorts of pain.
I would instead recommend [...]Want to make browsing a bit cooler?
This is definitely in the realm of eye-candy, and has no functional value whatsoever, but I just discovered Tab Effect - it makes changing tabs in Firefox a whole lot more fun For those of you familiar with Compiz, it’s got that kind of feel to it. For those who haven’t, check out this [...]
Astrology?
While surfing around Wikipedia (I sometimes do that for hours, just reading one article and following links to others) I stumbled upon The Forer Effect - I’d always suspected this and now I can tell people that my suspicions have a fancy name while I laugh at them reading their horoscopes.
Firefox 2 Add-on Developer T-shirts
Some months ago, Mozilla decided to reward extension developers who made their extensions compatible with Firefox 2 before October 1st. However, there has been some delay getting these shirts delivered to developers. By the number of queries on the forums and mailing list, a lot of you are curious about this, and while some of [...]