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Monday, August 9th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_977" align="alignright" width="221" caption="Flags from famfamfam.com"][/caption]
I hope this saves someone a little bit of work. I wanted to find some small country flag icons to use on a project that shows a flag next to where a particular data item (a datum on my lawn). I searched through a ...
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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Mid-way through showering the kids (lazy Sunday!) the power went again. It's a bit easier during the day, we can still see and the kids are quite happy to be hosed down with cold (the tank in the attic must be nearly blood temperature!) water. I can't check with the ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
While I'm developing projects I run a webserver on my own PC on a high-numbered port such as 22795. I use a little local proxy that I wrote myself for mapping entries in /etc/hosts back to localhost, and the proxy maps the request onto the web service running on the ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Haiwan - 'Animals' in Bahasa Malaysia"][/caption]
Haiwan is a copy of the Animals flashcards with Bahasa Malaysia sound clips and flashcard captions. It has been a very long time since I touched wossis.com, and I can't help thinking that it shows! I've been doing a lot of ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
I was in the shower, covered in soap! It wasn't so bad without the heater, but the lack of a pump meant that there was only a dribble coming out of the upstairs shower head. It was pitch black in the small wash room so that I struggled to find ...
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