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 …

Cleaning up double albums in coverflow

7 October 2007

Its always annoyed me that double albums showed up as two cds in iTunes. The only reason most double cds are two discs is because there is more content than one cd can hold (ie 74 mins), but as mp3 files this limit doesn’t exist. Fortunately …

The Psychology of Tipping

15 September 2005

I came across some interesting links via kottke.org on the subject of tipping that explain some of the psychology behind this unusual activity. Essentially, it seems that the size of the tip is based much more on how much the customer liked the server, than the actual quality …

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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. …