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Very straightforward with the ‘Text’ widget in Wordpress 2.7 (maybe this existed in earlier versions, but I’ve not had cause to use it before)
Just updated to WordPress 2.7, total upgrade time (including backups and download) was about five minutes
I don’t spend a lot of time on my blog these days, but I have to say I’m impressed with the new Dashboard
Good work WordPress team!
Made a little list of interesting-looking camera straps…
Most of the time I don’t carry a camera around my neck; instead it sits on my shoulder, or slung across my chest/back
The camera strap that comes with the Nikon D3 is really not bad… it’s wide, very thin and doesn’t do too badly at gripping. The biggest problem I have with it is the colour… bright yellow screams ‘steal me’
So, here’s my list:
I’ve put in an order for a quick-release UPstrap and wrist strap. I’m also interested in getting the LowePro Speedster (I’ve added it to my wish list (link over at the right)) as well as the Tamrac, but finding a source in the UK is a bit more difficult
In a foreign country? Getting pissed off that the Google search bar redirects you to the local-language Google?
Visit the Mycroft Project and add the Google UK search engine
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?country=GB&language=en
Back from China and I’ve added a Guangxi set on flickr. I’ll be adding a few more over the coming days
I’m in China again. Flew on Friday and arrived to surprise Xiaoxiao on Saturday
Spent some time in nearby Xianju city (Zhejiang province) and had a barbeque with some of Xiaoxiao’s colleagues
TIME have an interesting photo essay called “China on the Wild Side”. A set of 17 photos taken in Changsha city, capital of Hunan province in south-central China and home to just two million residents
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1843145,00.html
Ubuntu 8.10 (alpha 6) works brilliant on the Dell D630. Audio, Bluetooth, wireless and power management all work out of the box
pre-alpha 6 there was a gtk+ regression that caused external displays to flicker when loading applications. This has now been resolved. The bug is detailed at bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/245383/
By default I find the ALPS touchpad sensitivity to be too low, but this can be resolved by updating the xorg.conf file with:
Option “MinSpeed” “0.75”
For the most part use with a standard D-series D/Dock is also very good… external displays can be configured with xrandr (my D630 has an X3100 graphics chipset; the nvidia tool can be used for nvidia chipsets), USB devices are correctly detected, etc. Audio output via the mini-jack on the dock can be enabled with by checking the “IEC958 Default PCM” switch for the HDA Intel (Alsa mixer)
Currently the main problem I have is with repeated undocking/docking leading to a crash in the ehci_hcd (high-speed USB 2.0) driver… this can be worked around by a) disabling high-speed USB in the BIOS; or b) running “echo “blacklist ehci_hcd” > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-usb && update-initramfs -u && reboot” as root. I have logged a bug for this over at bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11472. When time permits I will continue my investigation and hopefully come up with a proper fix
As part of a case I’m working on I’m regularly wanting to know the exact number of Bytes in N Gigabytes and how many Gigabytes M Bytes are
If you’ve not used Google Calculator before, it’s brilliant. Just type, for example, “1TB in Bytes” into Google and bam! you have an answer
It is also capable of many other conversions, another example might be “100RMB in GBP” (how much is 100 Chinese yuan worth in Sterling)
The net result is my new gcalc script… it’s a really nasty hack (I can’t see why gawk won’t let me include a + in my field sep. and all attempts to escape it fail)
#!/bin/sh
q=`echo ”$@” | sed ’s/ /\+/g’`
curl -s -A foo “http://www.google.com/search?q=$q” | gawk -F “font size=\\\\+1>|” ’/font size=\+1/ { print $2 }’ | sed ’s/| //g’
In case you’re wondering about the final sed… I don’t like the way Calculator groups numerics in groups of 3… it’s a real pain when you want to copy/paste values quicklyCheeky monkey
August 30th, 2008
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