I’ve finally finished up the OpenID signup for Rosebleed. The workflow is what you’d expect - OpenID box on the login form, if the given URL isn’t recognized then it redirects to the signup form and prepopulates it with the sreg fields.
I did notice a strange behaviour in OpenID; I’m not yet certain if I [...]
OpenID on Rosebleed.net
Go green by going black? …not convinced.
I just came across an interesting post about energy savings based on the colour of a webpage (specifically, Google - but the idea applies everywhere): A black Google start screen? | Wired Gecko.
I’ve found other posts dating back to May of this year (The Numbers Guy) on the subject, so it’s really not a [...]
I annoyed Google! Go me!
I’m too impatient to wait for Calculator.app to load, or for the Calculator dashboard widget to catch up with me. The solution? Google.
If my computer is turned on, there’s generally a web browser open. Google Calculator meets my needs, and it’s faster than opening a local app or taking my boots off (if I need [...]
Pink for October
In support of breast cancer awareness and research, I’ve turned this site pink.
From http://pinkforoctober.org/:
Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.
But to be clear, raising money isn’t the primary purpose of this web event.
The [...]
Iomega Parallel Zip Drive in Linux
Introduction
This note describes how to configure the parallel port ZIP drive on a Linux system.
Older parallel port ZIP drives used the ppa kernel module, but more recent versions of the drive (After April 1998) use imm. There are slight differences between using the two modules, which will be noted as they come up.
This was written [...]
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My aim is to gather the collective knowledge of humanity; failing that, I’d like to maintain an interesting sort of site about the things that interest me - technology [the web, social networking, microformats, DHTML, and a bunch of other buzzwords], philosophy [spirituality, the Meaning of Life, [...]
