February 20, 2007 • 12:18 pm
Despite your recent upgrade, you are still a miserable piece of technology. I hate you, and I dearly wish to see your failure. May you crash and burn, you useless, outdated cripple of a web browser.
Death and misery forever be upon Internet Explorer!
Update: Ha ha! I’ve beaten you again. O death, where is thy sting? [...]
January 12, 2007 • 1:37 pm
I’m posting this here so that I can remember how to do it later on if I reinstall Firefox or something. This tweak will make your browsing experience noticeably faster.
In short, you need to change two values in about:config — network.http.pipelining should be changed so that its value is true, and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests should be changed [...]
November 24, 2006 • 12:19 pm
Apple sells Macs based on their superior security. This is probably a fair point — Macs are generally more secure from the moment you switch them on. Apple details its security features on this page, saying, “To get a sense of just how big the virus problem is, search for “virus” at both Apple and [...]
November 14, 2006 • 4:59 pm
Last night I managed to delete the plugin I’ve been working on for the last three months. It’s all gone, there’s no backups, and using grep I only managed to salvage about four or five pretty useless functions from my hard drive.
I use xampp for Linux to turn my computer into a webserver. I was [...]
November 02, 2006 • 3:00 am
First we had HTML. Then XML came along and we got XHTML. Then no-one really adopted it. Then XHTML2 started to be written. Then everyone complained because the W3C stopped doing anything useful. Then a break away group formed, and HTML5 was announced. Then the W3C decided to make their own version of HTML5.
HTML
XHTML
XHTML2
HTML5
HTML5, the [...]
September 06, 2006 • 3:21 pm
This from the PHP manual:
The function names __sleep and __wakeup are magical in PHP classes. You cannot have functions with these names in any of your classes unless you want the magic functionality associated with them. See below for more information.
Magical! Programming is full of this sort of thing. Another example is something called a [...]
August 22, 2006 • 2:47 am
Take extra care when messing around with your partitions on your hard drive. And be sure to make backups. Ye gods, be sure to make backups!
I’ve just spent the last 7 hours recovering files from my hard drive as a result of messing around to try and get Windows and Linux to read from the [...]
August 16, 2006 • 1:42 pm
For a while now I have been harbouring a terrible, shameful secret.
It’s so terrible, I’m just going to come out and say it. I, Mark Kenny, am completely addicted to Arial, Microsoft’s rip-off copy of the Helvetica typeface. Any typographic designer worth his salt will eagerly tell you how the bowls, tails and x-heights have [...]
August 04, 2006 • 12:23 pm
Have I been living in a cave at the bottom of the ocean for the past year? I certainly don’t recall having lived in a cave at the bottom of the ocean, but that would explain how I completely missed the fact that Macromedia is now part of Adobe.
Seriously, this happened a year ago, according [...]
August 02, 2006 • 5:11 pm
Everybody, and by that I mean everybody in the entire universe, hates wireless networks. Even if you love them completely and want to marry them, you actually hate them even more than people who say they hate them. What’s happening is that your brain is protecting itself from the increased levels of hatred. The second [...]