January 2005
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Bloglines Toolkit in Japanese
I'm not exactly certain of who did this translation, or even if it is correct, but I have found a translation of the Bloglines Toolkit into Japanese, courtesy of someone named Norah. I received a comment from her a while back that someone had done it, but I…
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The Pea-brained and the Whistlers
Is it only in the US that we can't deal with the words small, medium and large? Or, to be more specific, that we can't deal with the words small and medium? We have to start at large and work our way up – tall, grande, venti or…
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Age of the Franchise
I find it amusing how people constantly want to label things, but they so dislike being labeled themselves. Nonetheless, we like labels. Now we don't want anyone actually using them to specifically refer to us, but in a general sense, people love to classify things. How else do…
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It Makes Sense to Me
"We believe in communication. We're doing this because we think LiveJournal has something that's really strong with the community. We feel that that's one of things we are lacking." Mena Trott, in an interview about The Deal. I doubt anyone would argue that point with her. To be…
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Updating Auto-Increment in MySQL
I was playing with the database yesterday, and decided that some of my auto-incremented values (id numbers for particular tables, specifically Movable Type's PluginData) were simply getting too high….
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Narrator Trojan Headaches
Recently I encountered the Narrator trojan for the first time. This baby was really challenging to my nerves, as it used some techniques that I hadn't seen before. All the usual tricks of showing up in the Windows registry, or hiding out in the start menu were there,…