Tweet new posts in WordPress…

August 1st, 2010

After a long while not bothering to update WordPress, when I finally got around to installing version 3.1, which I had to do manually, as the automated updated didn’t work (it hasn’t worked in months). Immediately after running the (required) database update, I began getting 500 errors on the site. Not good. Read the rest of this entry »

I write like…

July 15th, 2010

…William Shakespeare. Well, according to I Write Like‘s analysis of my last post, anyway… Read the rest of this entry »

Using Getright as download manager in Ubuntu

July 4th, 2010

GetRight

GetRight logo
Licence:shareware
Status:stable
Version:6.3e (April 2009)
Web:
Homepage

Yes, GetRight. The Windows-only, paid-for, shareware download manager. Running on Linux. But before you ask – why? Read the rest of this entry »

DarkSide.Members++

July 3rd, 2010

I’ve reinstalled my PC. Down to four partitions – the Acer recovery partition (the BIOS insists on it, won’t boot otherwise), 32GB for / (ext4), 4GB of swap and the rest for /home. Yep, no Windows. Except I now have two Windows installs… Read the rest of this entry »

A suggestion for Google…

May 21st, 2010

I just had an idea for Google.  So, naturally, I did a Google search on “How to I make a suggestion for Google?”.  The top page told me the answer – but it wasn’t on Google’s site!  Anyway, turns out that their is where to put it.

My suggestion? Quite simple. I wanted to type “about:config” in the URL bar, but forgot the colon. I thought it would be kinda neat if Google said “Did you mean about:config?”.