Against entropy.
**w00t!** Putting an end to comment spam troubles. Now, this website sports new technology to combat the lurid zen-like spam comment messages that accompany URLs to poker and gambling websites, namely Jonas Bohlin‘s great freely available WP plugin called Jobolito Turing Test. Jonas says: This plugin distinguishes beetween human posters and machine posters. It does …
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Cool old computers. The net belongs to antiquities.
Tofu is a MacOS X app that does a few things to text, to make it more readable: In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, and each column is only as high as your window. So lines are nice and narrow, they don’t move about vertically, plus your text is now in easy-to-digest chunks. You …
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OK. I went and did it: got a Linux live CD ISO file, burnt it, and ran it on an old laptop. It all started with an old Knoppix CD I had lying around (thanks Erik in Lund!), and late one evening, I inserted it into the old laptop, which by the way is a …
When Luisa got an iBook, I was the guy to handle the data move from the PC Thunderbird over to the tightly-integrated Mail application in Mac OS X. The article Export Outlook @ MozillaZine Knowledge Base, I edited it. The docs were an illegible mess, but I got through them. I like wikis, and I …
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PyGoogle, a Google API wrapper for Python was made by Mark Pilgrim, and it looks so sweet I just exclaimed “aj, vad läckert”, at first misspelling the word, in a Danish fashion. SUMMARY ——- This module allows you to access Google’s web APIs through SOAP, to do things like search Google and get the results …
gaim is a fine chat client for your IM needs. It handles Jabber, and all your other protocols. The way you want a client to do it. It also looks smart, with GTK+.
When looking for a definition of a term, I stumbled on Google’s define: function, here used with RPG as search term: Google Search: define:rpg. Kind of neat.
Me and the SO went to Malmö this weekend. Lovely. Met my GM Tomas in Malmö, and he told me about his new project: to become a game developer. “I used to want to become a game programmer, now I am becoming one.” So, I decided to get deeper into the question, first by looking …
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I got an email from the unemployment office asking me to fill out a survey about their website. This I did. The usual boring questions about usability, just for me to rate 1-5 which was good or bad. Did you notice the errors there? Uneven numbers give you the possibility to rate at the mid-most …