AndyKruger Bliki

2008/02/29

In a TechCrunch posting, Michael Arrington has upset a large number of people, myself included, by showing just how much of a Microsoft Fanboi and "USA rules the world" closed-minded drone he is.

2007/12/21

Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith (21 April 1926 to present), has on this day become the longest lived monarch of the United Kingdom since Union.

2007/12/07

This is a reply to Stefano Rivers'a blog post Multiple IP addresses on Debian.

His post is about using "post-up" and "pre-down" in /etc/network/interfaces to add additional IP addreses to an interface, I propose a slightly prettier way of doing it.

2007/11/23

I consider Firefox 3 to be a big improvement over Firefox 2, so I would like to use Beta 1 as much as possible. Problem is, I also use the Google Notebook plugin a lot.

The Google Notebook plugin, however, won't install in Firefox 3 because there is a parameter in the package that specifies that the maximum Firefox version it is compatible with is 2.0.0.*.

This describes how I got my Google Notebook goodness back while still using Firefox 3:

2007/11/09

Being quite an old country, Britain has some old and strange laws still on the books. It should be noted that newer laws exist that make most of these obsolete, but they are still theoretically laws.

2007/11/04

OK... this one is pretty much a UNIX/Linux inside joke, with some "showing your age" type Internet meme stuff mixed in.

From Aaron Topponce

2007/10/28

The government of South Africa released a new Mininimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems in government (MIOS) document on 23 October. A pleasant surprise is that they have included OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a document standard format.

2007/09/14

Have a look at this satellite image on Google Maps showing the Brazilian rain forest, the damage from deforestation can be seen quite clearly.

2007/09/10

Every now and then it's time for a change. This change is a move from using e107 for my content manager/blog to using the MoinMoin Wiki engine.