White Russian, and the return of drunkenbatman

22 May 2007

Last week drunkenbatman popped up in my feeds again after almost a year offline. The last few comments on the previous post had led me to suspect the worst, though he is fairly prone to slipping off the radar for extended …

Latte Art

20 May 2005

Could this be the best mocha latte every poured? Sure, leaves and apples are pretty, but come on: it’s a lion.

There’s a good guide to latte art and milk frothing over on coffeegeek.com which covers everything you need …

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.6
17 July 2008

Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …

Incredibly Strange Film Festival iCalendars
12 July 2008

“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …

Last.fm Charts
6 July 2008

This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …

Sharing a Canon laser printer between OSX and XP
5 January 2008

In case anyone else runs into this problem in the future, here are the steps needed to share a Canon Imageclass 4140 laser printer between OSX and XP. I’ve only tested this under Leopard, but it should work for Tiger as well.

First, the problem. While …

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