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For about the past year, I’ve been using Visual Studio for a lot of my development work. I really like to use vi as a text editor, but IDEs like Visual Studio provide valuable functionality that isn’t present in vim. I tend to switch between vim and the IDE, depending on the sort of editing […]

I’ve finally resolved the technical difficulties that resulted in woodpress being temporarily unavailable. It appears that MySQL 5.0.36 was incompatible with the version of libc I had installed, but Debian Sarge unstable’s dependencies didn’t reflect that. To upgrade to the latest libc, I had to also upgrade the kernel.

Today my Pentax Option W30 arrived in the mail. So far most of my pictures have come out grainy or washed out. Probably because I’ve been experimenting in poor indoor lighting, or attempting macro shots with flash. A few days ago I read an impressively thorough digitalcamerainfo.com review of the camera based on limited experimentation […]

This post probably doesn’t interest many people, because it’s about a new toy I ordered, and is mostly devoid of actual information. There will probably be a similar (but more informative) post after the camera arrives. I’ve had my current pocket digital camera (a Sony DSC-T1) for several years. It’s not a high-end camera, but […]

Windows Vista is underwhelming to me. The two improvements that matter most to me are support for remote desktop at resolutions greater than 1600×1200 (Microsoft removed an arbitrary limit), and the ability to use Fast User Switching on systems managed with Active Directory (another seemingly arbitrary limitation removed). Switching to Vista would require that I […]

Want to know how to put sound on your web page? You’ve come to the right place! If you’re eager to get people to close their browser or madly click the Back button as soon as your page loads, make some noise. There are pretty much no situations in which I want my computer to […]

I’m doing some .Net (specifically C#) coding these days, and I need to unit test. NUnit – NUnit seems to be the most common solution, and definitely looks promising. NUnit has a stand-alone GUI and a command-line mode, and although that’s sufficient, it doesn’t appear to integrate with Visual Studio 2003 like JUnit integrates with […]

Whoa. Was that December? Is it 2006? A few days ago I stepped on my pocket digital camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-T1) and broke the LCD. I am very sad about that. It wasn’t my high-end camera, but it was very respectable (5 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom, and excellent macro capabilities — most photos I’ve […]