Schinckel.net

I had a problem some time ago with Stickies stopping working. It loaded up fine, but I couldn’t add any text or data to any notes. Then, I downloaded Gmail notifier, and got the same problem - I could type in a password, but not the login name. This was too annoying, so I did some hunting around. I found the following Input Managers in my Library (both these apps were working fine on other user logins):

• Amendment
• HotService
• Menu Extra Enabler
• Smart Crash Reports
• StepMenus

I disabled the lot of them, and it all works fine now. The moral is, Input Managers can screw stuff up. Stuff in other programs.

Take a look at the amount of Spam I have in my inbox at the moment. That’s right, I have ’leet spam messages.

Just noticed Google Photos in a browser window. This is a new service, according to my reckoning, but is really just Picasa, which Google bought some time ago. New info is that you can use iPhoto to upload images, as evidenced at Mac Tools. I’m glad Google decided to use iPhoto instead of making a Mac version of Picasa. Now all I need is a version of iPhoto that doesn’t totally suck with a large library of photos. Oh, and 250Mb ain’t real big for an online photo album. I’m up to around 6Gb at home, and that’s without really trying.

Thanks to Andy at TouchSA, I’ve come across a couple of rather cool, funny things on the interblags. They are all related, but I’ll go through all of them. They all relate to that funniest of television chefs: the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show.

• The first is the Firefox extension that translates the web content into Bork Bork Bork.
• Secondly, Google has Bork, bork, bork as one of it’s languages, so you can have it in that language whenever you search. Note that this is for the Google pages only, not the search results themselves.
• Finally, I found a tool that converts any entered text into Bork Bork Bork. (Swedish Chef!)

• Thunks tu Undy et TuoochSA, I’fe-a cume-a ecruss a cuoople-a ooff rezeer cuul, foonny theengs oon zee interblegs. Zeey ere-a ell releted, boot I’ll gu thruoogh ell ooff zeem. Zeey ell relete-a tu thet foonneeest ooff telefeesiun cheffs: zee Svedeesh Cheff frum zee Mooppet Shoo. Zee furst is zee Fureffux ixtenseeun thet trunsletes zee veb cuntent intu Bork Bork Bork. Secundly, Guugle-a hes Bork, bork, bork es oone-a ooff it’s lungooeges, su yuoo cun hefe-a it in thet lungooege-a vhenefer yuoo seerch. Nute-a thet thees is fur zee Guugle-a peges oonly, nut zee seerch resoolts zeemselfes. Feenelly, I fuoond a tuul thet cunferts uny intered text intu Bork Bork Bork. (Svedeesh Cheff!)

… blogs with multiple domain names. This blog has a couple of different domain names by which it can be accessed. I would prefer it all to be schinckel.net, but it’s not possible to have Blogsome work properly if it thinks that is the domain name. I’ve got it pretty close (most of the links, for instance, point to a schinckel.net location), but since it is a multiple user system, and the way it works out which database the data should be gathered from, the domain name must end with blogsome.com. So, in one sense future-proofing myself (if Blogsome shut down, I would simply repost all of the data onto a new system, and just point schinckel.net there), and another because it’s a shorter domain, I want links to go to there instead. But, there is one bad side-effect. I use technorati for seeing incoming links, but with the setting change I talked about above, it only now picks up links coming to schinckel.net, not schinckel.net, which isn’t really good enough. Since I get more links coming to the latter than the former. So my dashboard doesn’t get to see most of the links I’m really interested in…

I’ve got a lovely inline/AJAX search tool, but it doesn’t quite work properly with Internet Explorer. I use onsubmit="Search(); return false" so that it works well with JavaScript, and still continues to load the search page if JavaScript is disabled, but this fails in IE. That is, it still loads the search page, even though it attempts to load the results inline first. I wonder if I need to make the Search() function return false too?

Dr Karl from ABC radio is a funny, clever man. One of his recent podcasts/radio segments was called “Pluck for Luck,” and discussed four-leaf clovers. The funny thing he said almost slipped past my attention the first time around:

Stressors can come in a variety of forms. Drought, rain, aphids, Leprechauns, …

I had to listen to it again, just to see if I’d heard it right!

It’s just mind-blowing… This one’s funny, in it’s own way:

Dear Jane, My name isn’t Frank. It’s Mary.

And for Justin Timberlake fans: I’ve got a hairy back… (sung to the tune of Sexy Back).

Due to my stupidity in renting my flat to an (alleged) wife-basher, it is now vacant again. If anyone wants to live on Marion Road, just of Henley Beach Road, leave a comment, with your email address in the right box, and I’ll get back to you. Price is $265 p.w., available now. Stainless steel kitchen, Airconditioner, Garage, Security System. Quiet group of 5, established water-wise garden. Close to public transport and late-night supermarket. No pets, or wankers, please. Please, children, no superfluous comments. I will issue detentions.

Parents warned kids may copy movie stunts | | The Australian

I urge parents to keep an eye on their children so they don’t copy these sorts of stunts and possibly end up in a hospital emergency department.

Fancy that, hey. Kids copying stunts from Movies. Next from inane Minister: Eating food stops you being hungry. Idiot.