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MS Browser Ballot fails

24/02/2010 – 15:06

Just got the first XP machine with the Browser Ballot update on it.
I clicked “next” and IE8 came up with a window asking me to choose my settings. I closed it and selected Firefox from the available options. Internet Explorer opened and downloaded Firefox. I installed it and the browser ballot window was still there. [...]

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Playstation controller protocol quirks

22/02/2010 – 01:29

Today I discovered why I have been having a few compatibility problems with my Playstation interface code.
The PSX uses a SPI bus. The device is supposed to put data on the bus when there is a high to low transition, then read the command on the low to high change. Sure enough the official controller [...]

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Google Tasks

13/02/2010 – 23:49

I have been using Google Tasks to make to-do lists and am finding it really useful.
The interface is quite basic. You can add tasks and indent them to give it a bit of basic structure. It gives you multiple lists which at first seemed a bit cumbersome; I’d like to see an overview of all [...]

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Vistaprint update

13/02/2010 – 23:40

Vistaprint got back to me. They refunded the job and have offered to do another batch for free!
I am pretty impressed by this. The order was for about £10 and I’m sure most places would just write it off (hi Weycrest). They have requested samples from the bad batches and samples of how the colour [...]

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Second response from the BBC re BNP hijack

10/02/2010 – 22:44

The BBC finally got back to me with a response about the BNP hijacking the Have Your Say forums:

Thanks for your further e-mail.

Please accept our apologies for the delay in replying.

We’ve raised your concerns with those responsible for managing the Have
Your Say board.

They recognise the board is open to abuse and there are other [...]

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Vistaprint can’t print red

09/02/2010 – 18:46

I decided to get some business cards made. I produced the design in Inkscape according to Vistaprint’s specification:

A nice shade of red I thought. Unfortunately, Vistaprint can’t print red:

I included a few red and different colour items in the photo for comparison. I was a bit surprised at this as I had followed all the [...]

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Update to Thunderbird userContent.css

05/02/2010 – 19:03

My custom userContent.css has been updated. I found a fix for the few remaining stupid HTML mails that failed to display correctly due to using “font: inherit” which picks up the <body>’s text colour (off-white) which is unreadable against the white background. I’m still not entirely sure why the <body>’s font colour is being inherited [...]

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Thunderbird config

20/01/2010 – 18:32

I finally made the switch to Thunderbird. The Bat is okay but for some reason image loading in emails is really, really, really slow. There are many other minor issues… Although Thunderbird has it’s fair share too. To make it even halfway usable you need a long list of extensions, some of them experimental. SmartTemplate [...]

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Brother P-Touch QL-560 label printer mini review

29/12/2009 – 20:35

I got a Brother label printer in the sales. No driver for XP x64 was supplied but the Vista x64 one works perfectly. It seems that the printer subsystem did not change much between XP x64 (based on the Server 2003 kernel) and Vista.
Print quality isn’t bad. Blacks are very deep and should hopefully stay [...]

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BNP back at it again, time to start a Facebook group?

22/12/2009 – 19:11

Looks like they have started again: http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&forumID=7365&edition=1&ttl=20091222190905&#paginator
With the recent success of Rage Against The Machine thanks to a Facebook group I’m starting to think it might be a good way to sort this out. Unfortunately Facebook’s privacy policies go against my nature but maybe this time needs must…

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