Kindle Easter Eggs
Igor Skochinsky at Reverse Everything has some fun Easter Eggs for the Kindle (tested them on the Kindle International Edition). All the below is Igor’s work and time and effort. From the Home S ...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Kindle format “cracked open”
So the Kindle format conversion from .azw to OTHER format was already something out there in Python some time ago, now it’s hit the news again. 828 lines of Python (posted 16hrs ago) thwarte the ...
And it’s time for 2.9!
As also noted on the blog, it’s time to upgrade (if you haven’t already) to version 2.9 of WordPress. There are a huge whack of benefits and improvements (over 500 bugfixes), like the onli ...
Meep – a blatant attack on Freedom of Speech?
Meep. A word we all know and treasure as spoken by the inimitable Beaker (that long-necked scientist’s assistant from the Muppet Show, always the right-hand “man” of Dr Bunsen Honeyd ...
Processing large data volumes
So a compressed text file that ends up being 72GB sounds like a lot, right? Especially if you have to data-churn it with per-line processing. Fine. Wow. A lot. That pales in comparison to the (reporte ...
news.bbc.co.uk looping includes, broken
It seems that a looped include error has broken http://news.bbc.co.uk, creating repetitive nestings -- or just a whole whack of emphasis on the Copenhagen climate change story which is self-included 5 ...
MTN Business Effect on Hetzner
From Hetzner‘s Website: “All new websites and servers hosted in SA are housed in the Johannesburg MTN Business facility.” Yikes – that’s the wonky one that went down earl ...
MTN Business goes down – Network Outage over
Seems as though systems are being restarted / links restored, 1hr 10 min later… Whole of South Africa was affected by the network outage. Running commentary here. To quote the WebAfrica forum &# ...
MTN Business goes down
So MTN Business’s Datacentre is down (was Verizon Business, was UUNET). JNB issue, but whole network affected. Should sites not resolve, that’s most likely the problem. No indication of so ...