Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category

Save on winter heating with cheap DIY four poster.

Monday, December 31st, 2012

[caption id="attachment_1508" align="alignright" width="293"] With the sides knotted up during the day[/caption] I'm not keen on central heating but I don't like feeling cold in bed. The house we're currently renting never seems to get very warm: turning up the heating seems only to increase the bills and the 'musty old ...

Making the skype: URI scheme work on Ubuntu/Debian for Firefox/Chromium etc

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (skype) isn't associated with any program I added some skype buttons to lolyco.com recently and seemed to hit a brick wall. While there seemed to be plenty of others running up against the same problem, I couldn't find a working ...

WordPress comments post by Googlebot / “slike za facebook”?

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

While you may have spotted Googlebot POST requests in your logs and dismissed them, you may also have spotted some odd requests and search phrases turning up in your traffic analysis. For me it was "slike za facebook". Not only was it turning up in my search phrase stats, I ...

LEGO Mindstorms NXT Alpha Rex building instructions / plan

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

[caption id="attachment_1343" align="alignright" width="242" caption="LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Alpha Rex"][/caption] I bought the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 recently and was a bit disappointed to find that it didn't come with printed instructions to build Alpha Rex - the robot on the box art. I searched for the instructions all over the ...

Look Ma, no files! Portable object persistence

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Originally posted at JavaProgrammingForums.com Where can I store my application data? I see a lot of people starting threads because they're struggling to persist (often) a little bit of data from one run of their Java application to the next. The offered solutions are often some kind of jiggery-pokery involving java.io.File. Not ...