Our Markup Wizard abandoned ship today. Too bad, but that’s life I guess. Good luck at the new place.
Archive for October, 2004
SQL and beyond
Oct 29
SQL is a common language implemented by most databases. While it’s a nice language it does lack some features available in some databases (which often differ from database to database). Some argue, that you shouldn’t go beyond the contrains and limitations in SQL because that removes your ability to switch to a different database. That’s [...]
iPodPhoto
Oct 27
Steven Jobs held one of his quite entertaining events yesterday and as usual the session is available online in MPEG4 (QuickTime). Besides the righteous on the performance of the iPod, Jobs also announced a new iPod capable of storing digital photos, there’s just one little thing…
Step by step
Oct 24
We’re slowly making progress at bringing a new and shiny site back. Today the front page switched into something not too unpleasant. The HTML and CSS credit goes to Aarfing – which made it for his site. I hope he doesn’t mind too much while it lasts – my intended design is less like his.
My First Movable Type plugin
Oct 23
I just finished making my first movable type plugin and that was quite easy. It’s quite impressive how easy it was, and pretty cool that you can – with ease – change some undesired behaviour into what you want. So what does it do?
Hard times with EasyCar
Oct 21
While EasyJet seem to be an appropriate name for the airline in my experiences, their sibling EasyCar is a quite different matter. Two months ago my parents booked and paid for a rental car in Portugal. When they arrived however – the staff at National/Alamo, which is the EasyCar agent in Portugal – told them, [...]
Upgrades and fixes
Oct 20
So after salvaging a bunch of content from Google’s cache and other sources, I’ve started working on getting the site back online with a new design and a few new surprises which has been due for quite a while. First step was bump up the MovableType engine to the 3.12 version and installing a bunch [...]
Online… again
Oct 11
Sometime during the night between Thursday and Friday last week, the disk RAID in this server burned two disks and forgot to enable the spare disk in the RAID. The server went down, the lights went out and the site (along with the other sites hosted here). Thanks to a Linux Magician we have a [...]