Category Archives: neep-neep

u-shape-it

Posted on Monday, 2012 August 27 by Anton

Hm, Shapeways has an API. If I were a skilled Web programmer I’d make a page where you can choose the size and frequencies of a Klein bagel model …

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Firefox 4

Posted on Tuesday, 2011 March 29 by Anton

I miss the popup menu of recent pages in this tab, that was beside the back/forward buttons in Firefox 3. The bar at the bottom of the window has gone away, to save space for content; status notices now appear … Continue reading →

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who needs rich text, anyway?

Posted on Wednesday, 2010 December 01 by Anton

Apple’s TextEdit refuses to save as .txt. What’s up wit dat?

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don’t trust the clock

Posted on Wednesday, 2010 June 16 by Anton

I just noticed that, in the time shown for posts and comments, the month-number appears in place of the minutes. From the format settings it seems to be a WordPress bug. It’s not the host or PHP, because in WordPress … Continue reading →

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why walk when you can stagger?

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 August 05 by Anton

I got AT&T DSL because it’s a third the price of Comcast. Suddenly things go wrong: I can’t write here, or back up this site; I can’t save my edits to a Wikipedia article; and an article at the New … Continue reading →

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Wednesday filler

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 March 18 by Anton

meme goes meta When I decided I wanted a domain, about ten years ago, .nu was the cheapest registry. It’s now €60 to renew for two years; I suspect I can do better than that. So don’t be surprised if … Continue reading →

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sad Mac

Posted on Sunday, 2009 March 15 by Anton

My computer killed itself to protect you from more cat pictures. Later it occurs to me to mention the symptoms. It comes alive long enough to show a gray Apple screen, the spinner spins for a bit, and then it … Continue reading →

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