alecm
alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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  • Azureus for Solaris X86 Machines

    Available from Albert Lee’s website. w00t. Nowadays that’s a must-have.

  • Amazing…

    So I go away overnight, and by way of protest one of my cats – the smarter one, who sometimes sleeps on my keyboard to maximise the chance I’ll tickle him – barfs on my laptop bag, between the shoulder straps. Evil little sod.

  • Truth in advertising

    So I keep getting spam with as subject “Get a bigger instrument“, and instead of them offering a bigger instrument they offer pills and other questionable bits and bobs to modify one’s anatomy.

  • Well this is depressing…

    I blame Wimbledon.

  • iPhone Manual

    Amusing reading. http://support.apple.com/manuals/en/iPhone_User_Guide.pdf

  • Safari 3 Public Beta For Mac

    I’m trying the Safari 3 Beta So far the only obvious enhancement is the: You are about to close a window which has 15 tabs open, are you really sure? …dialogue. Oh, and American spellchecking… Still, it works OK.

  • Facebook is getting annoying…

    I can cope with the silliness like zombies and stuff like that, but I added one of the applications – some question/answering thing – to find that it spontaneously mailed all my friends to ask “How was your weekend”… and now Facebook are demanding that I provide a security question “in case I should ever…

  • Smoking ban hits England this evening…

    …so I intend to have a cigar, to celebrate.

  • Why move to WP? A personal update…

    So I’ve been asked three times in the past 48 hours, Why the move to WordPress? It’s a fair question, though it’s reminiscent of the question people asked me a few years ago, Why are you moving off LiveJournal? What’s so important about setting up your own blog? That one worked out pretty good, though;…

  • Legal Obligation Cat Posting

    By Law, Every Blog Must Post a Picture of a Cat Within 24 Hours of Creation or Major Revision So there…

  • DropSafe is now a Multi-User Blog

    I’ve now added Bart Blanquart to the list of authors (ie: me) on Dropsafe; he’s based in Belgium and hopefully can find time to add to DropSafe on occasion…

  • Dropsafe is now a WordPress blog

    Conversion mostly complete, and permalinks are being approximately rewritten by date, which is adequate for the moment until I can investigate the WordPress URL API more thoroughly. Goodnight, all.