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Google image search barriers

Friday, August 25, 2006

I’ve just been hacking around with one of my pages, trying to tweak what Google Image Search thinks it represents. The page contains a number of short paragraphs, each with a header and a single picture. The problem is that Google cleverly mines the text surrounding each image for keywords, above and below, meaning that [...]

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Kubuntu wireless woes

Sunday, August 13, 2006

I just bought a wireless card, installed Kubuntu Dapper Drake, and imagine my delight when it just worked, out of the box, no problems at all! Glory be. So I ran a complete update, crowed publically, and went to bed. The next time I started up, the wireless card had apparently evaporated. The solution is [...]

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Mutt config: double-double-quote

Friday, June 23, 2006

A little oddity of Mutt I just discovered, which I haven’t seen documented anywhere. When setting a string variable containing spaces set index_format=”‘%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s’” you seem to need two layers of nested quotes. (Ahem. And it needs to be all on one line. But you knew that.) At least as [...]

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Link dump

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Quick links to a week’s worth of browsing: Design: flowerlike lightbulb unfurls as it warms up. [via sensory impact] Craziness: every year two Greek monasteries bombard each other with fireworks. [via Nemo Ramjet] Life/art mutual imitation: A British explorer disappears in the Amazon jungle, while looking for a lost city. Attempts to find his remains, [...]

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LibraryThing adds RSS

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

LibraryThing (where I’ve catalogued my pitiful bookcase) has added RSS feeds for a bunch of stuff: recently added books by user and tag, reviews, &c. &c. It’s probably not useful, per se, but definitely fun — and it does give a time-based view of a collection, which up until now has been missing.

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Previously unplumbed depths of geekery

Saturday, December 24, 2005

I just sent feedback to a complete stranger, about their recent website redesign. (In my defence, they asked for it, and they needed it.) Then I realised that it’s Christmas Eve. Oops. Merry Christmas all!

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