Archives for 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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A List Apart web design survey

A List Apart is trying to form a picture of the ways web design is practiced around the globe. Take their survey if you’re involved with web design — it only takes a few minutes: http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey.

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Even more tips and how-to articles

For the last 10 days or so my partner’s had a really bad cold. I resisted it until yesterday, but have succumbed finally. The good news is that I’ve been using some of the time off paid work to update my Learning Centre, which had got way behind. I’m still not quite finished, but have […]

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Mt Victoria upgrades

I’ve been hearing and seeing diggers and other machinery up the hill for the last day or two. At long last the Mt Victoria Summit Upgrade is getting underway: As well as the new toilets, a less “bunker-like” viewing platform with transparent sides and new railing is planned, along with improved signage, more seating and […]

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All. My. Teeth. Ache.

The thing I hate most about having a cold is when all my teeth ache!

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NZ sky: dark or light?

It seems that some NZ astronomers would like to create a heritage park in the skies: Canterbury astronomers are pushing to have the Mackenzie District designated as the world’s first United Nations’ Heritage Park in the sky.… An astronomy professor at Canterbury University, Phil Butler, says there are already measures to protect the university’s Mt […]

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A world away

Wow! I can’t imagne what I might have in common with this woman, apart from the iPod… That lip-disc thing looks like it would get in the way of, well, almost everything really: Mursi tribeswoman with AK47 and iPod. [Via Boing Boing.]

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