Category Archives: technology

link repellent

Posted on Sunday, 2008 March 30 by Anton

I wonder whether anyone keeps track of how many times PVP has restructured its archives making old links invalid.

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how much is in there?

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 March 04 by Anton

I reloaded MacOS, restored my home directory from backup, and was surprised to learn that I have 3e5 files. Most of the bulk is music, but that’s only 7e3 files. Is there a tool analogous to du that gives the … Continue reading →

Posted in medicine, neep-neep | 1 Comment

I ain’t got no software

Posted on Sunday, 2008 January 20 by Anton

… that I can depend on. I updated my MacOS to 10.5 “Leopard”, and now the shell command sort no longer recognizes the ‘+’ option (to skip a specified number of words before beginning the key). Argh.

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non c’è più religione

Posted on Friday, 2007 November 30 by Anton

Tsk. A current radio spot gives the web address “wachovia dot com backslash new”. Meanwhile, what’s new with me? I’m reading Coxeter’s Non-Euclidean Geometry in the hope that it will give me the stuff I’ve sought in vain in other … Continue reading →

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tunnel vision

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 September 26 by Anton

Sunday my monitor gave an emphatic death-rattle; at this point repair makes less sense than buying a new flat one – when I have the dosh available. Meanwhile I’m using the spare, which has about 4/7 as many pixels (1024×768 … Continue reading →

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legibility

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 September 25 by Anton

Fellow WordPress users! If you find that bits of Unicode in your archives have recently (=in version 2.2 or later) become illegible, comment out these lines in wp-config.php: define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

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the trouble with imported cars

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 10 by Anton

Amara Graps writes: “Not being a blogger, myself, I’m seeing if the bloggers I know want to pick up this story I wrote.” What happened to Bush’s Cadillac 1? As recorded by a viewer of the motorcade and posted to … Continue reading →

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