If you ever want to know where a certain area code is located (at least US and Canadian area codes, I haven’t tried others), just type the area code into Google and hit search. The area code location is shown above the search results. Lots faster than trying to use those “free area code lookup”…
November, 2006
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With nothing but frustration from other solutions I’ve tried, I migrated my calendars to Google Calendar (GCal). This is a half-solution for me right now, but absent a viable alternative, it’s really pretty good. Here’s how I’ve got it set up: As always – back up everything first. I exported my Personal 2006, Work 2006…
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An instant classic – a must-watch for turkey day.
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“Forget this – it won’t work with JavaScript turned off” Commentary: Yeah, and images didn’t work with Lynx, but that didn’t prevent their adoption.
Thoroughly enjoyed this post.
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I’ve been using my current keyboard and mouse for a couple of years now and they are due for an upgrade. The keyboard has some keys that have become unreliable and the mouse is getting a bit grimy. Plus with the mouse attached, my desktop machine won’t sleep – I have to unplug it every…
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When I moved a bunch of URLs around for my new site, I knew I’d probably miss a couple of redirects and serve up 404s (file not found) for things I shouldn’t. I created a little plugin to help me with this. 404 Notifier keeps a log of 404 (file not found) hits on your…
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Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. The obvious change made with URLs on alexking.org was the conversion from the old template system: /index.php?content=software/wordpress/content.php to nice clean page URLs: /projects/wordpress Since I only had 25 or so pages that used these old URLs, I’ve got the…
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Oops, ran out of disk space on the server – that’s why it wasn’t, y’know, “serving” for the last few hours1. Sorry about that, everything should be back up and running now, albeit a bit slowly as things settle back in. A guess based on e-mail inactivity. [back]
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Steve made me do it. alexking.org made the A-List. Um, yay! – I guess. What’s more interesting to me than what list I’m on is the fact that lots of folks are trying to find ways to measure popularity and such. You never know when someone will come up with a better mousetrap for this…
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Bill made me do it. Your Linguistic Profile: 65% General American English 15% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern 0% Yankee I’m pretty boring standard I guess. What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
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RSS Advertising Options Charging Rumsfeld With Torture/War Crimes Text Inputs on Safari // ShaunInman.com/post The Lord and the Biker – ha! Web 3.0 Does Not Validate The Meaning of Borat – I’ll probably get this one on Netflix. Free Agent Review: Aramis Ramirez The Sand Trap .com: Bag Drop: Have Clubs, Will Travel – that…
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These releases have pretty minor changes, but I still have about a week’s worth of set-up and prep work to get the on-line demo’s and trials upgraded, along with new screenshots for the the web site and the new support system. I figured I might as well get what will probably be the official releases…
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I’ve released an update to my well-received Share This plugin. Version 1.1 has a couple of small changes: Fixed a typo that caused the Blinklist URL to be incorrect. Fixed a double = in the Furl URL. Abstracted the strings for easy translation. Changed the mechanism for creating the URLs so that it is compatible…
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Apparently anonymous SVN access to the PHP Tag Engine SVN repository was broken. This should now be properly available again. This post is part of the project: PHP Tag Engine. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. 1024×768 was a pretty good sized monitor resolution, and was probably the standard for laptops, back in 2002. As such, I designed the previous version of this site to fit in an 800×600 screen – or common resolution minus…