Archive | January, 2006

Lou Reed coming to Ljubljana

The rock and roll animal himself is coming to play a gig on 13 March at the Tivoli in Ljubljana. This is part of a month long Euro tour that starts at the Winter Olympics in Turin. More details at LouReed.com. I’ve never seen him live, so this is the perfect opportunity. I can’t convince [...]

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Minutes of Mozdev Admin Meeting 2006-01-20

(Present: brian, david, andy, pete) New Server Migration ——————– – the server is ready to ship to OSUOSL – there was a HD RAID problem, but Andy replaced the disk and will ship the faulty one back to the supplier – awaiting on IP address to use with remote management card – it requires IE [...]

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Marela Uploader

Marela Picture Uploader

The folks at Neko d.o.o. asked me to test out the public API for their Marela photo sharing system, so what better way to do so that using a Firefox extension. It’s turned into a small app that manages photo uploading, tagging, and setting permissions. There is an initial authentication layer for logging into the [...]

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On Shifting Ground

It was 2nd January just passed, and I was sitting in my folks-in-law house having dinner after just returning from Christmas holidays in Ireland. I felt the ground shake. It was very subtle, and nobody else seemed to notice so I didn’t say anything. The next day the word was out, there was a very [...]

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Firefox Theme Icon Specifications

At MDG, we’ve worked on/are working on a number of Firefox themes for clients. Each time I’m asked what icons are needed, I scratch my head and scour around the UI making notes. I haven’t found any documentation on this. So this post is an attempt to document it for reference. If I am missing [...]

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Had Enough of Web 2.0?

Well if you do, you are not the only one! Check out Jeffrey Zeldman’s article – Web 3.0. Or for another amusing take on it, check out the wankr beta. Not quite my take on it, but an interesting one nonetheless. Hype comes and goes. Bubbles fill up and burst. In the end, the cream [...]

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Final Dash for Linux Tag 2006

Luckily I came across the my pal Sandro’s post about Linux Tag 2006. I’d been meaning to submit a paper, and then looked at the deadline for the Call for Papers. Today – Yikes! So I went about the business of getting an account, editing my personal details, and submitting an abstract. I want, as [...]

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Some Changes Around Here

You may or may not have noticed some changes to this blog over the last few days. Here are a few details of what has been happening. I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0. There are been many scare stories out and about of it being buggy and not ready for release yet, but I took the [...]

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Faces to Blogs

Are people really like their alter ego in their blogs? Well, mostly. I was in Ljubljana on Friday night at the si.blogs get together. Thanks to David, Cookie, and Baya for the organisation. It was an enjoyable evening. I don’t need to say much more, because others have. David has put togther a list of [...]

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View Source Choice v0.2

Following the positive response to v0.1, here is the next iteration of this extension. New in this version is the ability to override the ‘View->Page Source’ menu item (Ctrl+U). It doesn’t override the key or the menu item, but rather the page source command. So it should still work if you have customised those items [...]

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