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Author: Randolph“Thank you again for agreeing to participate in the upcoming in-depth telephone interview. I want to emphasize the importance of your opinions to our client, Microsoft. “You are one of only a few participants invited to take part in this research and your participation is extremely important. “You have been specially screened and qualified. IfContinue reading Microsoft Telephonic Interview
As mentioned in a previous post, I’m looking at implementing OpenID on NCANE.COM to replace the existing session and authentication module. I am battling a bit though with the OpenID PHP classes I found, mainly due to silly directory structures.
I implemented changes on NCANE.COM this week. Firstly, I converted the column that stores your IP address from TEXT to INTEGER, dropping the size of the database by 12%. Then I changed the way MySQL connections are working, because I managed to rack up a 40MB error log in the last month because of maximumContinue reading NCANE.COM update
I’ve finished updating the blog to reflect the WordPress URLs, as opposed to the older SimplePHPBlog URLs, for related links to other posts. It took a lot less time than I was expecting! Now I just need to do the same on NCANE.COM.
I have an iPhone 3G. I have a Windows 7 machine at home. I have an iMac at home. I have a Windows 7 machine at work. The Windows 7 machine at work runs Outlook with Exchange connectivity, so no MobileMe. How do I keep all of these in sync with one version of theContinue reading How exactly do I do this, then?
I was asked by a new customer to move their WordPress blog to a hosted solution from WordPress.com. After exporting the blog to their XML format, I thought I would have to manually download all 499 images and link them. WordPress, fortunately, is a little cleverer than that. A simple “Would you like to importContinue reading Why WordPress rules more than you think it does
I’m now throwing my two cents in. M said it is recommended viewing for all South Africans, and I whole-heartedly agree. This movie can be analysed to death regarding its subtext, but I’ll just say this: it’s well-made. The special effects were hardly noticeable (and considering there was a ruddy great space ship hovering overContinue reading District 9
Vista sucks. I believe that strongly. We’ve just recently got our Enterprise copy of Windows 7 so I started my upgrade yesterday. After the first reboot during installation, I was told I had a missing operating system. Damn, I forgot to decrypt the TrueCrypt system partition! Did that (back in Vista), restarted installation, and nowContinue reading What I’ve learned from my Windows 7 upgrade
I finally took the plunge. We’ll see how long this lasts 🙂
We are back from a week-long holiday. It was fabulous. Unfortunately, all the fucktards on the road made it less fabulous. So, as a public service announcement, I’d like to tell all the bad drivers to die in a fire. Speed limits are limits, not targets. Truck drivers are especially bad (I reported three atContinue reading And we’re back