It’s quite amazing what some people manage to do with your browser. Maybe Apple needs to consider ditching everything else in OS X and just run Firefox fullscreen or something? 
No idea if this works with other browsers but I suspect so, considering their target audience is WinXP users.
2005/4/13
OS vs browser
2005/4/11
Excuse of the month
My current excuse for not writing much (if any) new entries is that my parents are visiting this entire month. I realize this will sound a bit extreme to most people, but when you live an ocean away from your parents, visiting them or being visited every now and then is not something that happens on a whim or very often, so we’re catching up a bit. 
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2005/4/7
Trackback spam
Great. Now that WordPress has quite decent comment-spam preventing measurements, I got 3 trackback spam entries in a row, and aside from disabling them altogether, I don’t think there are any hold-for-approval abilities available there.
Yes, I could start disabling comments/pings on old(er) entries, but I don’t really want to. I like the idea that someone might not read my blog all that regularly but still be able to catch up and comment from time to time, including the old(er) entries.
Time to (a) check all menu options again and (b) check the WP development website and forum to see if anything is being done already about this kind of thing.
2005/4/6
WordPress Dashboard
When the webserver is behind a firewall — as mine is, I merely forward the 8000 port — it helps to convince the PHP software running on it that for outgoing HTTP requests it needs to use the appropriate proxy settings.
For WordPress 1.5, you can do that by editing wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and adjusting the variables named $proxy_host and $proxy_port as needed.
What tipped me off that I was missing something was that I was fiddling around with a test-install of WordPress elsewhere and I noticed that the Dashboard used the RSS feed of the WP blog to show recent news, etc. I had never seen that with my own copy! It’s all better now.
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Opposites attract?
How on earth did these two meanings end up being connected to the same word(s)?
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
drawing room
n 1: a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained
[syn: {withdrawing room}]
2: a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and
a toilet
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Three in a row
Here we go again:
- Pope John Paul II died.
- Saul Bellow died.
- Prince Rainier III died.
May they rest in peace.
2005/4/5
A few bits of Google today:
- I signed up for a Google AdSense account and it now lists some ads on these blog pages, hopefully vaguely relevant to the content. I don’t think I’ll get rich from it, not enough visitors for that, but I was curious what would be involved in getting that setup and it wasn’t all that bad, really.
- I read in the Google Weblog that they’ve added satellite images to their Google Maps service. My first reaction was one of cool! but as a friend pointed out it is a step closer to every idiot being able to see what’s in your back yard, if your car is in the driveway, etc. As it is, Google’s images don’t zoom in that far, nor are they real-time (there is no indication of how recent they are), but what’s the next step?
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2005/4/4
BOINC!
The 3 active members of the IgorMUD team for the original SETI @home project have now all switched to the BOINC based version. However, BOINC allows you (and was designed) to apply idle CPU time to various projects, so that if you’re not interested in contributing to SETI @home, you might be interested in one of the other projects.
The BOINCstats website collects the results from several (all?) BOINC projects and presents that in various way per user or per team. Here’s the summary for the IgorMUD team:
There is an IgorMUD team for:
Feel free to join.
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