I’m having a bad evening.
I’ve been trying to print several pages of an Excel document to a PDF file, so I can send it off. What it’s doing, however, is not printing them to one PDF, but seperate files.
Now, that’s not too bad, but each file has the same name, so only the most recent one is actually being left on the disk.
What I’ve had to do is print each one seperately, and combine them in Adobe Acrobat. What would have happened if I didn’t have Acrobat?
Fuck Microsoft.
ABC Shop - Boyer Lectures 2005
Please note these downloads are compatible with most MP3 players and encoded with Windows Media software for PCs running Windows 98 or later. Please see website for full terms and conditions.
Okay, so they are compatible with most MP3 players, yet they are not MP3 files.
Oh, and might I add they are not compatible with iPods, the most common MP3 player…
It gets better:
ABC Digital Music Service - abcshop.com.au Downloads - Powered by DestraMusic.com V3.0
Internet Explorer V6+ is required to purchase, download and aquire licenses.
Unfortunately, this service does not support Macintosh systems.
Or Linux, or other OS, or anything relatively old.
Nice one ABC.
This site gets even worse. They claim to support “most MP3 players,” yet in actual fact only support WMA players, a subset of personal music players. I suspect this is verging on false advertising.
Mon 17th Apr 2006
I often spend a heap of time tweaking stuff on my blog, and these show up as hits in the Referrers list, as well as on Performancing Metrics, a system of tracking readership.
Now, it’s rather simple to stop your visits counting towards your stats.
First, visit your site, and ensure you are logged in. In your address bar at the top of your browser, type in javascript:document.cookie, and press return. Find the cookie entry that starts with wordpressuser_, and copy the garbage-looking string after it - this is the md5 hash of your server name - to the clipboard.
Find the location of your stat-gathering code. Before it starts, enter:
{if $smarty.cookie.wordpressuser_md5string != "username"}
and after it ends, enter:
{/if}
Make sure to replace md5string with your md5 hash!
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This could also be used to have any text show/not show when you visit your own blog. Like Google AdSense ads, for instance.
Mon 17th Apr 2006
This post is a Blogsome specific post with information gleaned from HOWTO: Wordpress Visitor Count Plugin Using Metrics API. If you aren’t using Blogsome, then you’ll be better off visiting there.
If you are using Performancing Metrics as your system for tracking usage patterns, you may wish to have a counter of some sort. It’s possible to do this, safely and securely with just a little bit of Smarty.
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I’ve already had resizable Textarea implemented in this blog - the two buttons that appear at the bottom of the comment box, next to Preview/Post Reply.
However, today over on MacGeekery, I came across something even better. A resize widget, that can be dragged to resize the comment entry box.
Getting this to work wasn’t quite as simple as just cutting and pasting code, however. Eventually, I rewrote the code from scratch, using some of my toolbox tools also.
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This is a test of the XMLRPC interface. I think Ronan may have fixed it.
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Seance On A Wet Afternoon • “Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood” • John Barry
Here’s some amusing images that passed across my feed/email in the past couple of days:
This first one is what one of M.C. Escher’s paintings may have looked like if done in primary school, complete with Teacher comments.
The next two came from Limbic Nutrition, and made me smile.
