The main drag in Barraba on footy finals night. Not much action here.
Nor here.
I came across this cool little iPhone app in my recent adventures into the world of distractedness. A growl client for the iPhone.
I recently moved my blog away from Joomla and over to WordPress.
This was for several reasons:
1. Joomla is a pain in the bum for blogging. Its too complex for a blog and I keep forgetting the differences between a “com”, “module” and a “plugin”.
2. Upgrading is a pain in the bum. I just recently noticed that half my content went missing as part of a recent upgrade.
3. I had bought an iPhone and wanted to be able to post while out and about. Getting this going in Joomla was a pain in the bum, (although I discovered after switching to WordPress that it wasn’t really Joomla’s fault).
4. My old TreeCam blog was running on an old version of s9y, and I wanted to combine it all.
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This is a little rant from several angles.
Sun’s Java Web Console is a nice little toy. Great for those people who prefer the less extreme learning curve of a CLI, and great for manager types who like pictures.
I’ve used it several times before, but thought I’d try it in on x86 Solaris10u6 box I have here. Bloody Sun. You think a released version implies that it’s stable, and working.
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If you play facebook’s MobWars then you may have noticed that you can now purchase land in other cities.
I’ve updated my MobWars ROI calculator to include all the new cities, (the ones of come across so far). If you run across any moer cities, then please leave a comment below, and I’ll add them in.
If you don’t like my fancy website wrapper, then the direct link to the calculator is here.
A rant about the state of play with Sun, and what I’d like to see Sun do to improve Solaris.
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I’ve been a user of Opera Mini for a long time. On my mobile it’s great. However, there’s times when I need to view the web in a bigger than 240×320 format. I spend a fair amount of time on the train, and I have a laptop with bluetooth, and a phone with GPRS and bluetooth…. but GPRS is slow and running firefox over it is a pain… even with images turned off.
So, this howto shows you how to run Opera Mini on Linux in glorious 1440×900…. and take advantage of the speed increase.
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I’ve been getting into Facebook’s Mob Wars of late. Trouble is… it’s so damn addictive. Here’s a couple of pointers for newbies that I’ve discovered.
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