In XP double-clicking on any image file loads up Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, how usefull. After installing The GIMP I thought it would be usefull to have it load images instead. Unfortunatly unless you are running The GIMP at the time it takes a while to load (damn annoying if it’s just an email [...]
I came across transparent desktop backgrounds the other day. Today I found some free time and had a go at making my own: I should have read the How-To first, it explains a fool proof method of making them perfect , i just need to find a tripod…
I have modified the tcpping script to output values much like fping‘s -C mode used in smokeping. At the same time I’ve created a new smokeping probe which uses this new mode. Hence we will have a TCPPing Probe for smokeping, yay! site-note: I wrote a WPing Probe (windows ping) ages ago too. It expects [...]
OutlookMT (MagicFolder) is a utility that monitors a designated Outlook 2003 folder for items. An item placed in the “magic folder” will be posted to the weblog specified in the settings. It works pretty well. I think it’s expecting word based emails, and I have set outlook to HTML emails only. Kunal has done a [...]
Gareth dumped this link on me friday afternoon just I was leaving the office. It had been a hectic week, and the weekend wasn’t any quieter. I finally got around to reading the cluetrain manifesto this morning in my partially dazed state. It’s worth the read. I love the comment from Eric Raymond: The cluetrain [...]
This was the initial WordPress post. I renumbered it, and followed the instructions at Dr. Bacchus’ Journal which I found via Carthik’s Blog to import my old MT posts. (Note: You can’t just add ID anywhere, it must not be before the author line). A quick poke with .htaccess make all my old url’s work, [...]
I will eventually be moving from Movable Type to WordPress. The reason is basically their new licencing scheme and that horrible thing called TypeKey. I already have the new server available, I’m just waiting for some spare time so I can install WP and migrate all my MT data to it.
Went to see The Phantom of the Opera last night. Very, very cool. Words don’t do it justice.
Seems like here in Cape Town (South Africa), that the world is creating its own little natural disasters for us. Yesterday a fire got badly out of hand. Pictures taken from our office and surrounding areas say quite a lot. Also featured on IOL, and news24. It took us about 15 minutes to strip the [...]
Looks like flash beat me to it
