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Open-source Zen

From the “Thanks” section of the White Wind Zen Centre’s newsletter:
From Mishin tando, “Thank you to the Roshi for finding numerous Open Source Software resources so that Practice Council work can be done without resorting to being locked-in to proprietary software; [...]“
Good that the Roshi took care of that, but also good [...]

Posted 31 August 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Foxit Reader

I just finished recommending this software to Trevor who was complaining about Acrobat Reader being big and slow, and I realized I should mention it here too.
Foxit Reader is a free, lightweight PDF reader for Windows and Linux. It comes in somewhere around the 4MB mark on disk once installed (compared to Acrobat Reader’s [...]

Posted 30 July 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Microsoft OneNote

Have any of you used Microsoft OneNote? I am intrigued by its promises but not convinced and it’s not the most straightforward thing to just sit in front of and use (or it is, and I’m overthinking it).

Posted 27 July 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

oh, -32300, ok

Error message I received from Wordpress (probably from the LJXP plugin? I’m not sure) while posting that last post:
Something went wrong – -32300 : transport error – HTTP status code was not 200
Well, that’s certainly helpful. I wonder what the HTTP status code was, or what URL was being requested that returned said status code. [...]

Posted 24 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: ,

I’m on LibraryThing

I’ve finally got around to putting my books on LibraryThing, the online book cataloguing service. I, too, have a hard time reading “online book cataloguing service” without snickering, but as they go, this one gets things right. I was able to import my Amazon “I own this” list by pasting in Amazon’s HTML, and the [...]

Posted 23 April 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged:

Phone providers always break photo email.

How I sent photos to Flickr on my Fido phone:

Take photo
Send to Flickr photo-posting address from phone

How I send photos to Flickr on my new Virgin Mobile phone:

Take photo
Send to an email address of mine which feeds into a program, which
Extracts the HTML part from that message
Pulls the message text and a URL out of [...]

Posted 19 April 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

WordPress CLI theme

This is the geekiest Wordpress theme ever (and is awesome).

Posted 18 April 2007 † Rich § Quick links ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged:

Use Firefox? Use Firebug.

I had assumed that everyone on earth knew about the Firebug extension for Firefox, but I keep seeing a common story on #wordpress: people fighting with CSS problems that they just can’t track down, but which Firebug lets me find in seconds.
Firebug is what the Web Developer extension was heading towards: a complete, live-editing HTML [...]

Posted 17 April 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: