April 2007

Longer NZ daylight savings

In recent months there was quite a fuss about changes to Daylight Savings in the US. I recall that both Apple and Microsoft had to release updates to sort out the changes for computers. Now New Zealand is following suit. Daylight saving to be extended: New Zealanders will have three weeks more daylight saving from [...]

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Formatting a WordPress post

For people who don’t know HTML there are ways to make the WordPress formatting toolbar more useful.

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A Better Finder Attributes fixes photo times

The puppies are 5 months old now and had their first haircut yesterday, so I grabbed some before and after shots. But, when we switched out of Daylight Savings Time a few weeks ago I forgot to reset the clock on the camera, only to realise once I’d imported the photos and noticed the wrong [...]

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Diverging dogs

Our puppies, Sasha and Oshi, are about 5 months old now, and recent graduates of the initial Puppy Class. Provided they’re not distracted by a butterfly or a breeze, they can come, sit, stay, lie down and walk to heel, at least for a couple of seconds at a time. We’re very pleased with their [...]

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Ollicle Reflex stylesheet for NNW

I make no secret of how much I like the RSS reader software NetNewsWire (NNW), which by the way is currently in beta for version 3, and that version 3 brings all kinds of really cool improvements. I always run betas of NNW and haven’t had any problems, but Brent, the developer, does point out [...]

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B5: The Lost Tales

Once in a while visitors to this site are kind enough to buy a product from Amazon via my affiliate links. Most probably come through the link to the book Maria Langer and I co-authored: WordPress 2 Visual Quickstart Guide. Each such purchase earns me a few cents. Recently the income from such referrals reached [...]

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