Google’s Do No evil mantra
When last did you access google.com/ig/oscheck? It returns a serialized array — with a weird space-holder — instead of “Do no evil” (which implies that you can be evil, think e ...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
No more silly Google.com fade-in effect
You’ve seen it, you hate it, you threaten to switch to wolfram or Bing… Or you can just make it go away. Stylish allows you to apply custom stylesheets to sites by wildcard prefix, so that ...
Dump MS Access data from Ubuntu
The mdbtools package for Ubuntu Jaunty includes a command called mdb-export. This allows you to dump the contents of tblName from database.mdb to STDOUT in CSV format like this: mdb-export database.m ...
jQuery 1.4 improvements
Over at jQuery14 the full list of progress, changes and improvements, notably (amongst other things) in the .css and .attr methods, as well as new AJAXian improvements. Also, event multi-binding is no ...
How a Web Design goes straight to hell…
Many, many, many can attest to the tail of trauma, pain and suffering, as well as deep, well-meant user input created by an environment which is free-flowing, without pre-set specifications, requireme ...
4 more days to Kilimanjaro!!
Right — now to pack and repack and unpack and repack — need to get the weight and the sorting right so that SAA and the porters carrying the stuff don’t complain. Worrying bit is ...
An update on Operation Aurora
The attack (Operation Aurora) on around 20 companies in the US, including Google, Adobe, Juniper Networks and others using the zero-day exploit of Internet Explorer is partly linked to social engineer ...
Now on Technorati too
Wow, that took long! The authority process does take its automatin’ time! And the count-down to Kilimanjaro is on — only a few more days to go to before heading to the top – and Tanz ...
And in other news…
Matric maths marks are not raised by more than the acceptable 10% (!!!???), and the AbaThembu are all ready to take their plans to Parliament today, saying – hold on, we own most of South Africa ...
And it’s time for 2.9.1
After a few reported issues with prior WordPress version upgrade 2.9, 2.9.1 is here to save the day (full version, not even RC 🙂 From the source: This release addresses a handful of minor issues as we ...
Y2K vs 2010 vs 2016 — year rollover still an issue
Ain’t that a kick in the head! Rollover from 2009 to 2010 has not been processed correctly on many systems, including Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager, they have confirmed in a state ...
Happy 2010!
Another year, another at least 730-odd opportunities! All the best for the next 8760 hours! 🙂 ...