Been trying out Opera 9 – great browser. Probably not as versatile as Firefox when you factor in the extensions, but it’s fast, sexy, and highly polished. Where it particularly shines over Firefox is in the memory footprint – I’ve been using both browsers all day, and Firefox is right … Read the rest
Batch Image
This WordPress plugin can be used to upload and resize any number of images at once.
Installation
It’s a single PHP file, so it can go directly into the wp-content/plugins directory, and be enabled via the Plugins admin page. Once enabled, an “Upload images” tab will be displayed in the … Read the rest
WordPress 20
WordPress 2.0 just came out, so of course I had to upgrade. Took about 10 minutes. Quite painless… and very nicely done. Thanks, WP developers! I’m looking forward to seeing what new options are available in the plugin API, and the AJAX stuff is really nice. More later as … Read the rest
WP batch image uploader
One of my other sites is a baby blog that my wife and I maintain for friends and family to keep in touch and read about my daughter. We’re routinely uploading about 20 images per post. Until recently, the site was running WordPress 1.2, and the uploading was handled by … Read the rest
Using mutt with gmail
I messed around for a while today trying to get mutt set up to use my Gmail account. Of course, I use the web interface 95% of the time, but sometimes I am on systems that do not have X and/or sendmail/procmail/fetchmail/whatever available. So I wanted a simple, self-contained way … Read the rest
Impenetrable
How do you get into a Windows box when:
- all user accounts are locked out,
- the Administrator password is unknown,
- the box has no working CD drive, and
- you’re too cheap to buy any extra hardware to boot from?
The answer, of course, is to spend all weekend learning how … Read the rest