Brian
SmugMug
In my never-ending quest to find the ultimate in online photo management tools, I am currently trying out SmugMug. Currently all of my images are self-hosted as I like the control that gives me. After a recent event however, the software I’m using (ZenPhoto) started choking on my uploaded images. This isn’t really ZenPhoto’s fault [...]
Irssi, Irssi Proxy and Bitlbee
Quick summary: How to make communications as convenient yet convoluted as possible. In my seemingly endless desire to play with changing the way I do things, I have modified the way I use instant messaging. While at work I am constantly connected to IRC in order to keep up (in realtime!) with things going on [...]
Vista won’t turn off the monitor
I run Vista at home primarily for gaming purposes (and I like uTorrent). One of the problems I had with it lately was it not turning off the monitor when the power saving plan was supposed to. I would watch it try and turn off, but usually wouldn’t quite succeed. Eventually I determined the problem [...]
OpenDNS kills Google
Yesterday I was having problems getting to Google. The rest of the internet worked fine, but I couldn’t connect to Google. It struck me as unlikely that Google would be down and check with Down for Everyone confirmed that it was just me. After much digging and a bit of thinking, I discovered google.com was [...]
Adobe Air in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04)
I just finished reinstalling Ubuntu 9.04 and was trying to install my air applications. Not terribly difficult… Download the installer from: http://get.adobe.com/air/ Install ia32-libs Install lib32nss-mdns (from http://tr.im/jCFs ) Install your apps I got stuck on the third step when I was going through things. I could install Adobe Air applications, but they had no [...]