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3 years ago

  • Creating your own personal aspell dictionary
    from 2 Nov 2008 - 4:23pm
  • Amarok 2 uses MySQL embedded as a metadata store
    from 13 Oct 2008 - 12:16am
  • jQuery: the new defacto Javascript web framework
    from 2 Oct 2008 - 10:38am

4 years ago

  • Has the war on spam been lost?
    from 6 Mar 2007 - 4:34pm

5 years ago

  • New MediaWiki skin based off of MySkin: NullBook
    from 1 Aug 2006 - 2:29pm
  • Misery with online reading of PDFs and the need for portrait monitors
    from 19 Apr 2006 - 12:53am
  • Giving up on my bookmarks system and joining del.icio.us
    from 3 Mar 2006 - 10:54pm
  • Bought my 15th domain--randomized.info
    from 28 Feb 2006 - 5:54pm

6 years ago

  • Trying to emulate mod_gunzip with Apache 2 Filters
    from 6 Oct 2005 - 10:31am
  • Installing Java 2 on Debian, The Debian Way
    from 21 Sep 2005 - 7:04pm
  • The next Microsoft Office... even uglier
    from 14 Sep 2005 - 3:20pm
  • Working on a new Drupal theme...
    from 25 Aug 2005 - 12:21am
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat's web-plugin, and Apache's mod_deflate
    from 15 Aug 2005 - 10:45pm
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  • Yes… disk I/O on Amazon EC2 micro instances is even SLOWER than you imagine
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  • Yes, I know. However the StatusNet Wiki's Twitter page mentions it has somehow worked for some people…
  • WotD: ablutions — The ritual act of washing one's self, for either hygiene or spirituality
  • Added a Twitter account via OStatus hasn't worked for me either… is there some trick?
  • As mentioned, browser is set in KDE. But, that page does mention "Setting the browser that opens in Thunderbird - Linux" cc @cyberkiller
  • That's set correctly. All my other KDE apps use it. Thunderbird does not
  • My "Content Type" list is empty, not sure how to add to it…
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