Contents of My blog
2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019
2005
- Why does Internet Explorer suck so much?
Internet Explorer gives me all sorts of trouble. At the moment it’s related to XHTML.
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 - Web Hosts – Grrr
I’m unhappy with my web host: they’re down.
Saturday, November 12, 2005 - Chinglish!
Reading English written by people who don’t know it very well is always rather funny.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - Eden’s Not So Hot
We live in Eden. That’s the name of our building, but it’s not quite paradise…
Sunday, November 27, 2005
2006
- A plug for MemoryX
I’ve actually had good service from a company! Worth cheering about.
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - Nokia service sucks
I had a fairly negative experience with Nokia: two dead phones (brand-new), and poor service.
Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - Idiot!
Words for idiots. Why doesn English have so many of them?
Friday, February 24, 2006 - Passion Driven
Someone got so excited by this book that they left a copy in everyone’s mail box.
Friday, July 14, 2006 - I’m a casualty in the Israeli-Lebanese conflict
This time my web host has been attacked by some people upset about the latest war.
Monday, July 17, 2006
2007
- The Ideal Job
Forget looking for the perfect, exciting, full-on passionate job. Just find something that doesn’t suck too much and pays the bills.
Monday, February 26, 2007 - AWB – Asciidoc Website Builder – is Go!
I’ve built my own website building tool, so I don’t have to spend so much time fussing around with this stuff.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
2010
- Removing GNOME
I’ve been getting annoyed by evince because it’s forgotton how to remember things, so I decided to blame gconf and evict it from my system.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
2011
- Microsoft Outloo…
I had quite a frustrating time today with some email.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
2012
- Making sshfs friendlier
I’ve wanted to make a nice friendly front-end to sshfs and various other mount-related programs for a while.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
2014
- Lunar Eclipse, October 8, 2014
On October 8, 2014 there will be a total lunar eclipse.
Monday, October 6, 2014 - Reprogramming the MaKey Makey
Getting different keycodes out of the thing.
Sunday, October 19, 2014 - Open Source Cake Mix
I was quite intrigued the other day to find a cake mix with the recipe printed on it.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
2015
- Python in the Browser
Which option is best for developing my browser-based programs in python?
Monday, February 9, 2015 - Python in the Browser: Pyjs
Today I’m taking a look at the first contender: Pyjs
Monday, February 23, 2015 - Python in the Browser: Skulpt
Today I’m looking at skulpt
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - Python in the Browser: Brython
Today I’m looking at Brython
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - Python in the Browser: RapydScript
Today I’m looking at RapydScript
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - Python in the Browser – the verdict
My search is over, and the winner is …
Friday, February 27, 2015 - Brickmaster Website
Brick master J.N.H
Thursday, October 8, 2015
2016
- Up close and personal with FreeBSD
My first experience setting up FreeBSD
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - FreeBSD Disk Encryption
How to set up one type of disk encryption on FreeBSD.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - Disk Encryption in Linux
Setting up disk encryption in Linux
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - Removing gvfs
It is possible (at least on my systems) to remove gvfs.
Monday, December 5, 2016
2019
- Entering the Void
Or, my experiment with Void Linux.
Thursday, January 17, 2019 - Getting Void Linux to work right
The business of getting nonfunctional stuff to work.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - Find and replace in geany
Getting it to work with regexes.
Monday, February 18, 2019 - Record my desktop with ffmpeg
Since I haven’t found a foolproof GUI program, I decided to try the command-line.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019