Category: Wayback Retrieval

  • Lightboxifying my gallery

    While I wait for Zooomr to work for me again (my OpenID [TypeKey in reality, with an OpenID export] login keeps coming back as verification failed), I decided to play with one of the features of Zooomr on my own gallery – Lightbox.  With some grunting, application of large hammers and persistence, I’ve managed to…

  • Another dinner

    Mum muttered that I didn’t have enough green in my last dinner. Therefore, I present exhibit 42, last nights dinner: Noodles, bean sprouts, red pepper, peas, red onion, turkey, sweet chili sauce.

  • Free Zooomr upgrades.. hmmm

    So the folks over at Zooomr are offering free professional accounts ($20 USD a year or some such) for free to anyone with a blog. You have to host at least one image with them, but that’s it. I have to wonder what they get out of it – perhaps just the publicity from posts…

  • On helping others

    It’s interesting how simple acts of help / kindness towards other people can make my day. Walking home from work the other day, I happened to notice an older gentleman trying to lever a wooden post off of his wall and out of the ground.  I stopped to watch for a few, and noticed he…

  • Defining insanity

    Silly me decided to try again to upgrade my ZyXEL firmware. I believe there’s a definition of insanity that reads ‘Trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results.’ I’m insane 🙂 This time, not only did SIP break, but I couldn’t downgrade either. This is a bit painful, as it means I can’t…

  • Last.fm and Amarok

    Amarok 1.4.1 just came out for Kubuntu Dapper, and it includes better support for Last.FM’s stuff.  With 1.4 (and I think 1.3.x), you could set up a Last.FM account, and feed data in to the relational system they use to recommend music for you to listen to.  1.4.1 has introduced support for playing the custom…