Posts filed under the 'Blog' category


Fun with multipart equations in Word 2007

In my latest article for PCPlus, I had to replicate an equation with several clauses, like this one from Wikipedia: […]

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Dipping my dev toe in the iPhone water

If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know I've been costing up what it would take to become an iPhone developer (especially given my penchant for Windows PCs and development and hence no Apple hardware). I've got a vague idea for an app, but then realize I'm just not thinking along the right lines... […]

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Windows 7 installed

Back at PDC this year in LA, the attendees got a pre-CTP of Windows 7. Finally, I found the time to install it on my little Dell XPS M1210, using the disk I'd been using as a trash disk for my wife's PC during its travails. […]

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Avatars configured for comments

A minor but quick change: I've included the ability for comments to show an avatar. Essentially sign up at gravatar.com, upload an image that "represents" you, and it'll then appear here if you comment. […]

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Dell XPS Tech Support...

...rocks. […]

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Now running Graffiti CMS 1.2

In the gap in between two shows, after posting the last blog, I downloaded Graffiti CMS 1.2 and upgraded this site. Using the shared WiFi in the theatre it took a little while, but that was all upload and download times. The actual "upgrade" was practically instantaneous ("copy these new files over the existing ones"). […]

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It's scammy letter day!

It must be my birthday or something for, in opening up all the mail that came while I was away in the office in California (my wife doesn't open junk mail or bills), I came across two letters that are deceitful to the nth degree and borderline scams in my opinion. […]

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Quickie Chalk extension for the tags issue

I mentioned in my previous blog post that the workaround I had for displaying the tags for a post vertically, rather than as a horizontal, comma-separated list, was flawed. […]

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So I get bored easily...

No sooner do I finish my quick series on customizing a Wordpress theme for Graffiti (I, II, III, IV) than I throw it all away for a — gasp — hand-written one. Yes, I got bored with the browns and went with the grays. […]

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Customizing Graffiti CMS, part IV

(In which I continue taking apart a Wordpress theme to make it work with Graffiti. Part I. Part II. Part III.) […]

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