Author Archives: Angus Hardie

3g umts router

A Review of the Cisco-Linksys & Vodafone 3G/UMTS Wireless LAN Router It’s a 3g router, so now you can connect a small network to the internet anywhere you can get vodafone 3g connectivity. Total price = 150 GBP + about … Continue reading

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Poetry and RFC968

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc968.txt An RFC in rhyme 🙂 See also the complete collection of April 1st RFCs (at wikipedia)

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Crash with WSMethodInvocationInvoke and malformed XML

I’ve been doing some stuff recently with XMLRPC for both SQLEditor and an unannounced new product. One of the key parts of XMLRPC in cocoa is the Apple web services Core. It provides almost everything you need to use web … Continue reading

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PSpell in debian with PHP

The default debian stable packages for php4 don’t seem to include pspell. I’ve been looking at using the AJAX spell checker in something, but then I realized that it wouldn’t work, at least not with my current server setup. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg00064.html

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Scrap Metal

As it stands, the only value the Titan TTC-K8ATB/825/SC holds is as scrap metal waiting to be recycled. There’s nothing quite like paid shills for writing reviews, but that obviously didn’t happen here 🙂 I often find really critical reviews … Continue reading

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Disney animation

I was just looking today at Disney DVDs when I made a curious discovery and an odd realization. You CANNOT currently buy most of the main animated feature films AT ALL on dvd. They are simply not available. In some … Continue reading

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PHP, trim and the non breaking space

An odd thing occurred today, I was trying to do trim($string) on a string in php, but I kept getting strings back that appeared to have a space at the beginning, the exact thing that trim is supposed to remove. … Continue reading

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Natwest Business Breakfast

It’s taken me a while to write about it, but last week, Natwest in Edinburgh held a really great session for business banking customers. A breakfast and two seminars. Starting at 8am they gave an excellent breakfast and then went … Continue reading

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SQLEditor 1.1b3 & softpedia

Today I released SQLEditor 1.1b3. I think this could very well be the last beta version before 1.1 final release. My first minor point release application!! (x.1) Originally I hadn’t intended to update all of the websites today, but they … Continue reading

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Collections of Radioactive stuff

I came across this site the other day when I was looking for information about radioactive fiestaware. The author collects radioactive artifacts [Link]

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WordPress & this weblog

I’ve finally upgraded to wp 1.5, plus the image authentication thing in the comments works again. 🙂 I’ve also decided that the theme must be changed, so it may change in the next few days. (default for the moment though).

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What the Orcs think of Multi-player

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2005-06-10&res=l From Penny-Arcade 🙂

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SQLEditor 1.1 nearing release

SQLEditor 1.1 is now approaching release. It seems to have taken much longer than expected, however it does have a number of interesting improvements. The most interesting improvement is that it can export directly to a database. This is still … Continue reading

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Debian Sarge

I realized that I’d managed to update to Sarge (v 3.1) mostly without noticing. I should have pinned my packages to woody (3.0) but didn’t realize, which meant that I went through the update process without actually noticing. This led … Continue reading

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The Lucky Despot Hotel and Casino

The Lucky Despot Hotel and Casino was the name of an establishment in a story that I was reading recently. 🙂

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Forum for malcolmhardie.com

Following the suggestions in this article, I’ve been considering forum software recently to offer customers (and others) somewhere to discuss SQLEditor. Currently I’m considering PunBB, because it seems to be simple, fast and well received by reviewers and users. PhpBB … Continue reading

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The length of my hair and the length of the grass

Since I live in a small house as opposed to a flat I have a small amount of garden. Most of this is grass. I haven’t gone bald, so I also have some hair on my head. As I was … Continue reading

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Not managing time very well

Recently I haven’t been managing time very well, with the company business and the new release of SQLEditor things seem to have been building up and not getting done fast enough. The grass and my hair are growing too long … Continue reading

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plutil

STANDARDS The plutil command obeys no one’s rules but its own. from the plutil man page

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No Osborne Effect?

The Register has a new article up about the Osborne effect, a supposed problem that means that if you excessively pre-announce products then nobody buys the stuff that you’re selling right now. The article suggests that the whole idea is … Continue reading

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