I love Wikipedia, I wish I had the time to just roam through its myriad pages and topics for eternity. Life demands more, so when I make the time to take the opportunity, I do relish it greatly. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sun&oldid=445690729 Specifically, let’s start to break down this question posted on an IRC channel some time back: …
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What’s a backup solution?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been listening to stories of lost data, drives and machines for what feels like an eternity. For example, Googlers reported in 2007 hard drive failure rates of about 8% per year in their datacenters. Data security and integrity is very important, indeed many enterprises would not exist today …
I always seem to forget to blog…
Which is why I should do so more. You know, practice written communication skills, seem organised and on top of things (though I don’t recall missing an assignment deadline or copping a late penalty in the last 4.5 years of uni…bonus marks excluded because sometimes they are ridiculously hard and thus fun, but not necessarily …
Adding G+ to a SquareSpace Site
Simple. If you haven’t added a Social Links Widget, now would be a good time. Download the G+ icons and choose the one you want. Under Website Management > Data & Media > File Storage > Upload Files, upload the icon. Get the icon’s URL, something like: But you should use the relative URL in case …
Final take on hover.com storing passwords as plaintext – and why I don’t plan to switch
TLDR: The community demanded a fix, and hover.com have fixed the issue, and without to the best of our knowledge disclosing any personal information or customer passwords to any third parties*. * Yes your email provider will know, and possibly some routers your traffic passed through (such as your ISPs). Change your password now and it’s minor problem solved. — Security …
Teething issues?
It’s probably just me…I seem to have a talent for finding edge cases and issues with things 🙂 SquareSpace’s blogger.com importer doesn’t seem to be working for me, have sent a ticket and will see what drops out. My guess at this time, having gone through their post and video relating to Importing Blogger Entries – …
Moving
To peterjs.com So I’ve decided it’s high time to finally move off Blogger onto something more powerful and customisable. Normally I’d take the time to consider a large number of competitors in the industry, you know – evaluate different solutions for their strengths and weaknesses. But since it’s basically just for me, I planned well …
REMIX11 Sydney Highlights
Vaughan Knight “Game on with HTML5” was IMHO the star with this gem of JavaScript (serendipitously discovered of course): while (zombies) { run();} He demoed how easy it is to use HTML5 game development frameworks to build cool stuff, and fast too. Russ Weakley “CSS3 is everything we used to do wrong?” of Max Design gave a …
PREMIX11 – Keynote to REMIX11 – Highlights
My first time at the web conference REMIX – Sydney 2011, and PREMIX is apparently having its first year (REMIX has been running for four). I’d say pretty good so far, the keynoters (not quite speakers – but I’ll explain) were excellent. Mr Percival is a wizard of sound, not my kind of music but very …
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Chrome to Phone is awesome
Soooo fast, and cool! More details via the official Google Blog:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/20-percent-time-spent-coding-in-clouds.html Starting to get a little scared though, if Froyo is the requirement, hopefully Gingerbread/Honeycomb don’t become requirements too soon for these new features (or HTC and Telstra update more frequently). Still this was heartening:http://www.androidcentral.com/three-uk-suggests-original-htc-desire-will-get-gingerbread-update
Peter Johannes Schmidt 