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December 8, 2007

Hard disk failure

My hard drive at work crapped out on Tuesday, sonofab**** Got onto the oh so nice people at Dell, excellent customer service. Drive had more errors than a dyslexic at a spelling bee. Managed to get it booted up again though and got some stuff off it. Then Dell sent out a replacement drive, nice. Learned a valuable lesson. The two most important locations to back up if you use Thunderbird and Firefox:
December 8, 2007

Multiple phpBB2 forums

Spent an inordinate amount of time solving a problem last week. A site with multiple forums, forums were hosted inside an iframe (but under the same domain). Problem: trying to go into administration panel of the board would either crash the browser or cause an internal server error. Hmmph. Solution: Auto cookies, nice likkle script which suggested the right settings for me. http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=228741
December 8, 2007

Sifr, nummy fonts accross the web

Combining javascript, css, xhtml and flash, this handy little script allows you to safely embed non standard fonts and still achieve w3c compatibility. Nice. http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr
August 23, 2007

Rusty the narcoleptic dog

Probably the funniest video on the internet
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