From Vlad, who recently joined our team at work. It turns out he plays the guitar too (here’s some music from him), so I’ll have to convince him to bring his guitar in someday.
My first Russian link
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Misspelling my name
Back when I was in college, I got a piece of mail addressed to me with one of the funniest misspellings of my name that I had ever seen: “March Adranowitz”. Today, someone mentioned me by name in a bug report and referred me to “Marc Abramnotitz”, which is also an amusing misspelling.
Hmmm, I guess today must be a “slow blog day”.
1 GB of RAM in our Windows laptop
My wife’s Windows XP laptop has been pretty slow lately and I haven’t gotten around to doing the old Windows ritual of backing up the data and reinstalling Windows from scratch, so I bought 1 GB of RAM from a coworker and installed it Tuesday night.
It might’ve helped a bit, but I think I still need to do the fresh Windows install.
What do you think are the chances that this routine won’t be necessary with Vista?
Web serfer
Recently, I’ve noticed that 99% of the comment spam on my blog is this single message (from a bazillion different email addresses of course)
Actually i am not an active serfer, but this this site is really great, i will spread it through my friends.
I don’t care much, since Akismet is nuking it all with the click of a button. It’s just interesting how hard this bonehead is trying.
WordPress 2.1 released
I was using WordPress via the Subversion 2.0 branch so I had to do:
svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.1
and then clean up a few spurious merge conflicts.
Interestingly, while writing this post I might have spotted a WordPress 2.1 bug – I had written:
<code>svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.1</code>
but WordPress kept trying to do some linkification or something that screwed up the above svn url and caused the rendering of the post to end prematurely. I worked around this by hiding the URL from WordPress by writing:
<code>svn switch http</code><code>://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.1</code>
OS X: VirtueDesktops
VirtueDesktops is a nice freeware app for OS X that does multiple desktops with neat effects including the famous “spinning cube” effect. Easy to use and unobstrusive, you can use hotkeys to switch between desktops and also Cmd+Tab switching automatically switches you to the desktop on which the target app resides. It’s surprisingly nice to simply use it along with Cmd+Tab as it lets you zoom each app on its own desktop and thus reduce screen clutter.
OS X: How to resize an off-screen window?
When I switched from two monitors to one (I have an external monitor at work), one of my XTerm windows was left in a state where it’s resize handle is off-screen. I can’t resize it, nor can I move it, since it’s already at the top of the screen.
Any tips or freeware for fixing this problem?
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