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You won’t believe this… October 30, 2005

Posted by andy in : life , 9 comments

…actually, you will.

Christie decides to clean the kitchen today. Clean as in “Spring-clean”, so it’s everything off the benches wipe things down and so on. She even polishes the kettle. That’s dedication.

After polishing the kettle, she picks up the base to wipe it over, and lets out a little scream. A cockroach runs out from under it. So she does what any self-respecting girl does and calls me over, flapping her arms.

I get out the Mortein, spray it, and it dies. Problem solved. I go back to my study.

A minute later another little squeal. Now she’s whacking the base of the kettle against the sink.

I walk over and look, and there’s cockroach after cockroach falling out of the little plastic base and tumbling into the sink. They’re all sizes, little babies to full adults. I spray them all. Then, we start spraying the base and all hell breaks loose.

Cockroaches are running everywhere. It’s all on and we’re taking no prisoners. The flood becomes a river, becomes a trickle and then stops. Nothing’s moving. We spray until the base is flooded in Mortein and becomes a black pool of cockroach death. Then we flood it with water. Baby cockroaches start floating to the surface. Bodies still, they trickle down the drain. We flood and empty their home until nothing else comes out.

Then we take a look at the toaster…

Charity: The open palm. October 7, 2005

Posted by andy in : life , 6 comments

I’m rather fond of charities and I like donations. On my list of all-time best things ever, I think they’d rank pretty high.

But there was something that kinda irked me, and when I say it, you’re going to think I was nuts.
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Hudson! Roll over. Roll over. Roll over… or just walk away…

Posted by andy in : playa , 6 comments

You would be forgiven if you thought that the only reason I wanted a DS was to play with puppies. Forgiven primarily because, if you had been at my house over the last week, you would have been absolutely correct.
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Revolution September 22, 2005

Posted by andy in : playa , 2 comments

I tried not to mention this, since I have a habit of being a Nintendo fanboy, but…

…

How great does the Revolution look now?
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Step 3: Profit! September 21, 2005

Posted by andy in : coding, life , 16 comments

The plan is simple.

Step 1: Idea
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit

Here is how I did it…
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Belated birthday pressie!!

Posted by andy in : life, playa , 4 comments

I totally now own (drumroll…..)

dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada…

one of these
nds

Which is great because not only do I get to play that Yoshi game and Mario RIGHT NOW, but I also get to buy Nintendogs tomorrow and Electroplankton when it eventually appears (November?)

Yay!!!

Another screengrab release (0.6) September 20, 2005

Posted by andy in : coding , 11 comments

WOOO!!!

Screengrab 0.6 is out.

In an exciting development, I have fixed some bugs.
Support for more locales should be coming soon I hope.

Excerpt from the main page follows:

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Pretty maintenancey release really. I …

  1. …fixed the amusing problem with mozilla.org, and hopefully any other webpage that has strange horizontal banding issues.
  2. …made better error messages. Problems are usually that Java isn’t configured.
  3. …fixed a stupid bug where I was calling a method that doesn’t exist
  4. …fixed some SecurityException problems (I hope - feedback on this would be good)
  5. …fixed problems with context menu obscuring view in some Linux variants (I hope)
  6. …made my update rdf actually work (I think) :)

All my spare time September 10, 2005

Posted by andy in : coding, life , 10 comments

…has been going into that screen grab extension.
Honestly!! People are never happy!
Frames, better error handling, why Java, configuration!!!

It’s unbelievable! For a little while I thought frames would elude me (I HATE poring over the DOM trying to find the EXACT element hiding within some esoteric little nothing) but I’ve sorted that now.

Screen grab! 0.5 is out!
You can now grab frames, there is support for French speakers (thank you Jean-Bernard Marcon!!) and I have moved the 3 options for grabbing under a submenu.

To come in 0.6: Better error messages, more locales, (hopefully) a fix for the context menu being snapped on Fedora. Probably some configuration options wouldn’t go astray too.

More ScreenGrab… September 2, 2005

Posted by andy in : misc , 20 comments

Hooray, my little Screen grab thing has been approved :)
HERE!

And it has its first positive review.

Of course, it gets OutOfMemory errors if you try to grab something too big and it has some interesting problems on (ironically enough) the Mozilla home page.
I guess I’ll get to the bottom of it eventually, but then again… this should make my extension obsolete.

What the Nuno Bettencourt? August 31, 2005

Posted by andy in : dream , 10 comments

Last night I dreamt that I met Nuno Bettencourt, one of the guys who previously was a member of Extreme II: PornograffittiIII Sides to Every Story (Jewel Box)Extreme Extreme… (how embarrassing a dream for me this is).

Anyway, he was returning a trolly to Woolworths and I said “Hi” and he said “Hi” back. It was pretty exciting, he’s a fairly good guitar-type dude.

So after that I went to a CD-shop (I think it was Revolution-CD in Canberra) and I was looking for that Fleetwod Mac CD where the cover’s in sepia tones and one of them is sitting on a bench and the other one’s standing (damn memory) they are apparently dancing or something (Rumours).

What does this mean?

I have been thinking for a while that I wouldn’t mind owning some Fleetwod Mac stuff. But… I don’t really think about it that much. And Nuno? WTF?