March, 2008

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Writings from March, 2008.

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New GMail rolled out to those using ‘GMail for your domain’ »

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It ’s only a minor thing on first glance, but the code that makes the GMail interface work in our browsers was updated in some significant ways a while back. Unless you were a user of GMail for your domain, or Google Apps or whatever it’s called now. Read »

WordPress 2.5 released »

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It’s great so see WP continuing from strength to strenght. Read »

Google bad ad’? »

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I am normally a fan of the doings of Google Inc.. Indeed, it may be that I will find I still am since I am waiting to hear back from their Security team regarding some badness I stumbled upon and reported. Read »

Amazon–styley ‘Wish List’ comes to iTunes? No, but this technique helps »

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Yes this is obvious stuff to some, the ability to drag off and use iTunes URLs, but wasn’t to me. Read »

Superb SuperDuper Mac backup software »

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The Mac OS X backup application, SuperDuper, has long been a highly regarded backup application for the Mac. Read »

Did the Time Machine update break Time Machine (a bit)? »

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Perhaps it ’s a coincidence that I have not seen this nonsensical error message before and only a day or so back there was an update to Time Machine. Hm. But it’s more than a little worrying when your backup software says something like this: Read »

happy cog[1] and WordPress? Wow »

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[1]to be specific, the guys named at the top, (not sure if Liz Danzico is part of happy cog, but who’s counting). The important point is that these two powerful bodies have publicly intertwined in the production of WordPress v2.5. Read »

WordPress 2.5 Release Canadidate 1 — respect! Only one gripe so far »

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What as complex and sophisticated as a publishing platform can be produced to total perfection, without causing someone somewhere to gripe? So first of all, this gripe is tiny and insignificant in the big scheme, although not unimportant (if that does not seem too much of a contradiction). Read »

Class added permanently or by jQuery? »

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It’ great to know I will be building jQuery loveliness into code in the future. Read »

Easy to get depressed. Yes, “worse things happens at sea”, but still… »

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I cannot mention the latest such case of “Oh no…” since it would be wrong to point. But it is so annoying to visit a website, read about who runs Read »

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