Schlump around
Filed in General, 25th February, 2008, 12:36 CETEver open your eyes in the morning and just know, for certain, that no good will come out of the day? That you have things to do, but you are going to muddle through your standard procrastinations and find yourself still schlumping around when you notice with confused horror that the sun has already [...]
Disconnected ShareThis plugin for Wordpress
Filed in Technical, 17th February, 2008, 1:41 CETI see the ShareThis plugin on tons of Wordpress blogs — and with reason, because the presentation is quite nice. You don’t have to take up a chunk of the screen listing all of the different social networks (and they keep multiplying…) or offering the option to email this post to a friend; instead [...]
404 pages on 1&1 webhosting: complaint and solution
Filed in Technical, 16th February, 2008, 1:03 CETI had an unpleasant surprise today when I was testing a new site I’m setting up using 1&1 web hosting… I mistyped the URL, and lo and behold, instead of showing any kind of useful error page for the 404, the server neatly redirected my browser to a completely different URL, “domparking.php” at the “sedoparking.com” [...]
Curing hiccups
Filed in General, 10th February, 2008, 0:11 CETI was googling the word “intractable”, just to make sure I wasn’t misusing it too egregiously in the post I just put up… and right there, the fifth result on the very first page, was a hiccup cure.
Doesn’t everyone who’s ever had the hiccups want to know a cure? And this is not just [...]
The data (u|dys)topia
Filed in General, Technical, 9th February, 2008, 23:54 CETTake one simple conversation with a neighbor, add a few late night walks in the dark, and it develops into a complete utopian/dystopian vision of the not-so-distant future.
First, the conversation: we were talking about everyday marital strife, and she mentioned how her husband wants to redo the roof himself — it’s a relatively straightforward project, [...]
