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Re: Trying a New Comment System

djehuty — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:38:11 -0000

That's what it's using. It found three year old comments on a blog I no longer follow. No big deal, really, but a good warning for the future.

Re: Trying a New Comment System

djehuty — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:11:44 -0000

It seems to have been able to discover quite a bit about me.

Verdict: works; slightly scary privacy wise.

Re: Trying a New Comment System

djehuty — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:48:47 -0000

Can I pick up my username/gravatar?

Re: FancyUpload - Swiff meets Ajax

djehuty — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:15:03 -0000

The function __flash__argumentsToXML is not defined. Is there some library I'm not including? This seems to be an adobe function, but I'm lost here - what have I missed?

This is being called at the beginning of a file browse. The parameters appear to be setting up correctly.

Re: but she's a girl... » iPhone 2.0

djehuty — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:43:58 -0000

I love it. Wonderful device. And the Optus plans in Australia are pretty reasonable (as opposed to the Telstra and Vodaphone plans which are rubbish).

Re: but she's a girl... » Age limit

djehuty — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:04:00 -0000

This particular instruction "not suitable for..." should be treated with the same respect as washing instructions which require your new garment to be gently hand washed by specially trained angels on the full moon with distilled water. In other words, be reasonable - is the child the sort of out of control brainless ninny who sticks everything within reach into their mouth? Some are, most are not.

Re: but she's a girl... » House guest

djehuty — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:03:00 -0000

Our cats would always 'chatter' like that when they hunted birds (behaviour which we frowned upon, of course). That's if you mean the 'k-k-k-k-k' sound? It's loud enough for birds to hear, but it doesn't scare them away. Maybe it somehow placates the birds or disorients them or has some other hunting function.

Re: but she's a girl... » Design flaws

djehuty — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:04:00 -0000

I can feel my granddad talking but: that's what's wrong with the world these days.

People (designers) are so arrogant that they think that because they thought up this cool looking idea, it must be a good idea. Most of the traditional tools (think garden tools, for example), architecture, and so on evolved over time with gradual improvements and a lot of testing.

I'm not against innovation, I'm just against being so blinded by your own pride you don't find out if what you've dreamed up is actually crap or not.

Re: A Few Snooty Words about Technological Etiquette

djehuty — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:54:15 -0000

Until recently I was co-owner of a restaurant with a no-phones policy. The reason was not so much the noise, although that could be a problem, but the way it changed the atmosphere. In a restaurant where some thought has been put into creating a pleasant place to dine (ie: no golden arches), there is a sort of collaborative effort between the waiting staff, the customers, and others, to produce an environment conducive to enjoying the food and the company. So when someone gets out a phone and starts interacting in a different environment, it ruins it for everyone around them. The only thing worse is someone getting too drunk or failing to restrain bad behaviour from their children (and I have 3 children so I'm not unsympathetic.)

And strangely enough it's a good measure of a person's general character to see just how they react to being asked to take calls outside. We had the procedure that we wouldn't interrupt the call, but we would ask the person very politely if in future they would take calls in the hall outside. Most people were understanding or apologetic. Very much all their neighbouring diners were very happy that this should happen. But about one person in three or four would become very upset, often losing their temper, at what they felt was an unwarranted intrusion into their private lives. Oh well, I always felt they could eat elsewhere in future given that we'd done our very best to be nice about it.

Re: Gettin’ Intellectual About Property

djehuty — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:01:18 -0000

The difference, to me, is that whereas you guys have contributed to the debate, a lot of people are providing nothing but thoughtless knee-jerk reactions. Someone the other day said "would you steal my wallet" - to which I responded "would you let me photocopy your wallet". I'm not saying the answer is clear, but it requires more thought than the DRM brigade are giving it. The Future of Music (podcast of book) has some meaningful things to say -- too much for here.

Re: Microsoft-only Government

djehuty — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:12:51 -0000

I can't really see why they felt the need to provide a special purpose grant viewer/submitter, not with SSL well standardised and acrobat working free and across platforms. Better still rtf or html. It's typical of big projects like grants.gov to do things the hard way when they don't need to, and then fall short of their promises. As to "should open office be required" - no. Why? The first question should be "why can't open standards do what we want." Aaargh!

Re: but she's a girl... » Plastic peril

djehuty — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:02:00 -0000

Yes Matt Wilkie - what a great idea! And if the store won't waste their time doing that for you it's a good reason to be shopping elsewhere.

Re: but she's a girl... » One Bag to Rule Them All

djehuty — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:11:00 -0000

I use a Tucano second skin for carrying my powerbook in. They're made from a wet-suit type material so water proof and so far have stopped any scratches. Can't really use one on its own, but they are great if you want to put your laptop in another bag.-----
Followed the link to the crumpler site. Never again. Lasted 2 minutes, didn't find your bag. Trying way way too hard to be cool to be anything other than embarassing :(

FWIW: I use a padded cotton pouch my girlfriend made for my 15" powerbook, all goes in a leather shoulder bag I've had for a while.

I like the look of the crumpler's, but I feel safer with a bag which doesn't look like it's got anything very expensive in it.