No one cares about this but me.
The term ended Thursday, so the last couple days I’ve been teaching myself Python. It logically follows. And just now I spent like half an hour creating sort a crappy roguelike with basic...
View ArticleHow to Get WordPress Working Under PHP safe_mode on NearlyFreeSpeech.net
NearlyFreeSpeech.net does not get along well with a brand-new WordPress installation. The WordPress installation will do stuff like this: Refuse to upload a file, with an error message like this:...
View ArticleNew WordPress theme
I took someone else’s perfectly respectable-looking theme and covered it with pictures of Sechs. I think I’m now incapable of identifying my website as my own if it doesn’t have a grumpy Sechs picture...
View ArticleHow to Retrieve WordPress Comments Accidentally Marked As Spam
WordPress doesn’t delete comments you mark as spam – they remain in the database to help train the spam catcher. If you accidentally mark a real comment as spam (or, perchance, a whole page of them),...
View ArticleWhy Yahoo Private Domain Registration Is Not Private
In short: It’s not possible to either transfer or cancel a domain registered this way without making your personal information public. Yahoo’s description of the service is dishonest about this. At...
View ArticleRandom notes about Google Chrome
* Definitely still in beta. * The scroll-bar thingie on my touchpad scrolls down, but not up. (I assume this is at least partly because of some problem with my computer itself, since I’ve had similar...
View ArticleGlaaaare.
In WordPress? Never use the automatic upgrader for plugins. It broke my whole installation today, and I spent two hours today putting it back together. (Edit several hours later: Actually, the...
View ArticleI’ve discovered the One Good Thing about Vista.
Its image management. The metadata for JPEGs includes tags. I can tag my photos offline! And Windows Photo Gallery Live allows you to upload to Flickr, and actually works right! (Flickr Uploadr doesn’t...
View ArticleBlah Apple
Having discovered that the cell phone works fine as an MP3 player, I started up my perennial Get The iTunes DRM Off My New Pornographers Albums Project again. I tried three pieces of DRM-cracking...
View ArticleAKICOLJ
I just realized that iTunes* went crazy at some point in the past year, and I have two or three copies of about half of my music collection – all in the same folder as the originals, but with different...
View ArticleThe mysteries of server logs.
YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR ME TALK ABOUT MY SERVER LOGS Like half of my hits this month, and likely for much of the forseeable future, are on this post from people googling “scared of manju.” Language...
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Dreamwidth!
Yup. I remain snarp. I’m kinda still pondering what to do when cross-posting goes live – I doubt the buggy WordPress lj-crosspost plugin I’m using will be able to post to Dreamwidth. Anyway, I’ll be...
View ArticleI am now available ENCRYPTED
Because when I’m stressed out and have a lot of free time, I upgrade my computer’s security. It’s soothing. Now all I need to do is wait for someone I know to get a public key, making this actually...
View ArticleRecent Projects: Picasa and ancient breadmakers
How To Make Picasa Index All Of Your Frigging Images, Rather Than Merely The Ones Of Which It Approves Picasa by default does not index PNGs, GIFs, or TGAs. It indexes, but does not display, pictures...
View ArticleHeir to the Shadows, Anne Bishop
I’M READING ANNE BISHOP AGAIN apparently I suffer from masochistic tendencies. So I’m about 3/4 through this book. And there’s this guy Lucivar, and he’s explaining evil magical roofies to his...
View ArticleShocking Update: Yahoo domain registration still sleazy.
They just tried to charge me for a domain they don’t manage again. Fortunately, this time through I’d erased my debit card number from Yahoo Wallet. (I had to use it to renew my Flickr a couple months...
View ArticleIt is Chinese Zodiac Year of the Dead Computer.
I know because my computer is dead. This means that EVERY PERSON IN THIS FAMILY’S COMPUTER HAS DIED WITHIN THE PAST THREE MONTHS. So maybe it’s the Three-Month Period of the Dead Computer. I guess I...
View ArticleComputer Easter
It’s back now. All my files seem to be okay. I’m posting this as an experiment, to see if smoking starts curling out of the keyboard the moment I hit “publish.”
View ArticleWhat you do on New Years Day.
You cuss at Game Maker for having no mechanism for stepping through your code when something goes horrifically wrong with a script containing multiple layers of nested loops. AND OH WAIT I THINK I KNOW...
View ArticleDiscoveries
1) Google Chrome is wayyyy faster than Firefox. 1a) But my life depends on search-as-you-type, and that’s presently only available via an extremely jittery alpha plugin. 2) It’s actually pretty easy to...
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