A simple matter of…

For many, many months now my favicons have been corrupted – incorrect favicons stored against various bookmarks. And they keep changing. So first off all I wrote some sed to remove this from bookmarks.html: sed -i ‘s/ ICON=”[^"]*”//’ bookmarks.html I started firefox and … the icons are still there! So now I find that they [...]

After reading [http://goodgearguide.com.au/index.php/id;1786016474 this] article, I’m inclined to agree with the idea that “someone will buy Sun”. However I don’t agree with the author about who will buy them. Fujitsu and Sun work together on the hardware side (SPARC chips), but I don’t quite see why Fujitsu bothers TBH – as far as I’m concerned, [...]

Well it’s a long weekend and so after I’ve finished doing fun stuff (visiting friends, riding the bike) it’s only fair that I do some chores. One such chore was writing a letter to the Inland Revenue going through mistakes (or bad assumptions) made in my 2006-2007 tax calculation. To make my life easier I [...]

Each time I cook, I wonder about a few things. Firstly, the oven – it’s a fan assisted oven and air is also blown through the front of the over to keep it cool (in case there are kids in the house). Why isn’t it just done in a similar way to Thermos flasks – [...]

You have managed through sheer stupidity and bloody mindedness to overtake even Gnome as my most hated Linux project. I do _not_ like being [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pages/experimentalAddons mollycoddled]. The [http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/firefox-3-security-madness/ SSL fiasco] is still ongoing and whilst it’s now slightly easier to bypass, it’s still not good enough. How many of your users do you think are [...]