I just added a search plugin to my site. Unless you use Firefox 3 and noticed the small blue highlight on the arrow, it’s fairly difficult to notice, but for those who - like me - make good use of that box, it’s a nice thing to have.

Let’s start with the easy bit: the addition to the header. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I’ve been using Google Chrome for about 2 weeks or so now, and here’s what I think of it so far: Read the rest of this entry »

Ernest Pike continues to contribute 50% of the entire traffic to this site - who knew that this obscure singer would prove so popular?

Anyway, an email from a nice chap called Bart tipped me off to two more recordings available through UCSB’s The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project: The Green Isle Of Erin and Do You Remember The Last Waltz?.
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Apparently there’s now an unofficial way to make Google Chrome run on Windows 2000. This is pretty cool if you’re still running 2000 somewhere (say on a laptop) for whatever reason. There are some odd warnings with it, but nothing you can’t live with, apparently.

VideoLAN’s VLC 0.9.2 (codenamed Grishenko) has been released today. Read the rest of this entry »