Entries written in August 2008

Written August 29, 2008 in Asides

The following services allow you to check whether your IP address or domain is listed on several different blacklists (blocklists) at once:

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Written August 20, 2008 in Asides

I’ve been badgering one of our MS-based clients to implement a Wiki for some time.. today he added a the SharePoint Wiki to their Intranet for me.. I was disappointed to find out that it doesn’t exactly conform to standard Wiki syntax.. see the following tongue-in-cheek syntax guide:

MNteractive ยป

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Written August 18, 2008 in Asides

My iPhone Cake

My wife made me a delicious iPhone cake for my birthday.. then I ate it :) Look at the photos here

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Written August 14, 2008 in Asides

Here’s a Yahoo! Pipe I created which uses the latest Amazon Web Services to display your wishlist (any list, actually) as an RSS feed:

Amazon Wishlist RSS Generator

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Written August 10, 2008 in Tutorial

The following instructions explain how to convert a VMWare (CentOS 5) virtual machine, into a Xen DomU guest machine. The basis for this tutorial was this post by David Nalley.

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Written August 5, 2008 in Note-To-Self

I use the amazing AskApache google-404 plugin on this blog. (It makes my 404 page really helpful – take a look) Recently, I noticed a bunch of mysql errors in my error.log, like this:

[sourcecode language=sql]
WordPress database error Can’t find FULLTEXT index matching the column list for query SELECT ID, post_title, post_content,MATCH (post_name, post_content) AGAINST (‘feed funkypenguin’) AS score FROM wp_posts WHERE MATCH (post_name, post_content) AGAINST (‘feed funkypenguin’) AND post_date

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Written August 4, 2008 in Asides

Interesting reading about the “dark side” of online communites, and technology. I enjoyed the idea of Postel’s Law applying to life in general:

Malwebolence – The World of Web Trolling – NYTimes.com.

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Written August 3, 2008 in Projects

The One Ning” (download below) is a WordPress theme that will shamelessly mimic the style of your Ning site, using its CSS stylesheets. It’s based on the excellent theme created by Marcus Schiesser.

I’ve improved on it, given it a cool name, translated it to English, and added an options page.

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