Monthly Archive for June, 2006

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Google Site Search in Blogger

Published on June 28, 2006 in Google. 3 Comments

Just so I don’t forget, this is how to put a Google Site Search (search within your domain) in your Blogger template:

<FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="http://www.google.com/search">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="num" value="10" />
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="hl" value="en" />
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" value="<$BlogURL$>" />
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="as_q" style="width: 100px;" />
<INPUT TYPE="submit" value="Search!" />
</FORM>

Copy/Paste into your Blogger sidebar and off you go!

You Are 48% Cynical

Published on June 27, 2006 in meme. 1 Comment

You Are 48% Cynical


Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you’re a realist.
You see what’s screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what’s right.

How Cynical Are You?

via Ine

Murphy-Forret: 1-0

Published on June 26, 2006 in technology. 5 Comments

Statistically improbable, but there you have it: both my machines (Laptop – Windows XP, Desktop – Windows 2003) are swiftly breaking down at the same time. The following things all happened in the last week:

  • DESKTOP: Upgraded to iTunes 6.0.4 (I think), and the program hasn’t started up at all ever since. No more ripping my CDs, no more podcasts. I’ve gotten a pop-up to upgrade my iTunes on the laptop too: erm, no, I don’t think so.
  • DESKTOP: inserting a DVD in the drive halts the machine. Like, mouse freezes and everything. Power button is the only solution
  • DESKTOP: upon booting, the machine now gives me between 3-5 error messages. iTunes, obviously, but also Firefox (multiple times). Those popups with a “Send a message to Microsoft?” You bet I’m sending!
  • LAPTOP: couldn’t get a VPN connection going. Errors at different stages, but always an error. Seems to have been solved by upgrading my ZoneAlarm firewall, but loads of other stuff has gone wrong since that install
  • LAPTOP: Power management went belly-up. I can’t shut down properly (PC hangs on wall paper or just after), I can’t suspend nor hibernate (neither with the key combination or via the shutdown menu)
  • LAPTOP: USB stopped working. No more sync with the N91, no more sync with the iPod (doesn’t even charge), no more transfer of my pictures. Couleur Cafe is coming up and I’m going to take hundreds of pictures to post (some) on Brussel.blogt.be. Joy!

I always gathered that one PC would break down before the other, and I’d go through the work of moving all data to the good one, reformat and reinstall Windows on the first and go from there. As it is now, I’m not sure which one I can consider to be the ‘good’ one. I need a good working portable for Friday (Couleur Cafe), but I’m in the middle of finishing a project on that machine and I hadn’t really calculated an OS reinstall in my Gantt chart.

Wednesday is Windows Vista demo time @ Microsoft Belgium headquarters. That might be an option …
Windows Vista

(No “switch to MacOSX” comments please. Not gonna happen.)

Google and Perfect10: DMCA at its best

Published on June 24, 2006 in copyright and Google. 1 Comment

While searching for something really innocent on Google (honestly!), I got the following warning:
Google DMCA warning: OMG

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (“DMCA” – 1998) criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. OMG, what kind of illegal practices had Google just protected me from? Clicking the ChillingEffects link shows the DMCA complaint in question: the Perfect 10

Google DMCA explanation: WTF
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