Archive for the ‘Asides’ Category
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 377 views
Got me a 2GB Kingston SODIMM chip for my EEEPc today, doubling it's RAM. Good stuff! I'm running without swap, and somewhat pushing it with regards to memory usage, so I definitely needed this.
Also got me a 160GB WD Passport 2,5" external harddrive, for backup and external storage. All I ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008 306 views
Wii homebrew channel! Lots of free goodies for the Wii, mostly point-and-click games ported to run on the Wii. This one requires no modding (warranty-voiding or otherwise). Interesting!
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007 1,190 views
Working on a plugin to display recent Flixster reviews in a Worpress widget. Flixster doesn't publish any RSS feeds, but the backend for their Flash applet thingy does suck down an XML-based feed which can be easily parsed. The first beta version of the plugin is displayed in the sidebar ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 638 views
Did an upgrade today to the new 2.3 version of Wordpress. Didn't go so smoothly, mostly due to plugins barfing at the new database layout. Got most of it sorted now though, even imported my UTW tags to the new builtin tag system. All good now!
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007 847 views
Inspired by Slashdots extremely popular tagging system, I have decided I need one too! So I went and installed Ultimate Tag Warrior and think I have configured it properly... If you wonder, the tags are the random looking words in the lower right corner of the posts. There's even a ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 576 views
Installed a search term tracker to keep an eye on how people get here. Some of the articles climbing to the top of my "Most Viewed" list kinda surprise me so I thought it'd be fun to know how the hell it happened.
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