Month: October 2006

I installed Kubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (Dapper) on an old 2001 PC today. The machine used to be my primary desktop, running Windows 98, became a spare about 2 years ago after I got a laptop, running Mandriva LE 2005. It gave up the ghost from a combination of losing a power supply in the Cape… Continue reading A short and sweet (whisper it) review of Kubuntu 6.06.1

There’s a bane infesting the internet. OK, there’re many. But the bane I’m considering here is one that I find highly irritating. It’s number 9 on Jakob Nielsen’s all-time Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. Born of the need to control, a vain attempt to keep readers on a site when they actually want to… Continue reading IE7: The demise of a bane?

I’ve upgraded my blog software to b2evolution 1.8.2 (Serenity), from 0.9.1 (Dawn). Featurewise it looks a reasonable improvement so far, as you’d expect with the version jump. The whole project looks quite healthy, with the documentation now in much better shape than before, two new releases in quite quick succession, and a much better plugin… Continue reading Upgrade to b2evolution 1.8.2

Rory McKinley has written a useful Gregarius plugin, Feed Filter Regular Expression. Gregarius is a great little PHP application, simple to use, well-documented, and with a helpful, active community. It’s an RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator. I use it to aggregate and export feeds, as well as create a page for myself containing all the feeds I’m… Continue reading Gregarius plugin: Feed Filter Regular Expression