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Archive for December, 2006
VLC 0.8.6 – full screen controller panel
26 Dec 2006VLC media player 0.8.6 (changelog) was released a few weeks ago so this may be old news, but I am clearing my backlog of drafts. Mac OS X users, if you watch videos in full screen mode (like I do most of the time), you’d be delighted to know that they added a full screen [...]
Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo cake for sale
In: Fun
26 Dec 2006Saw this on a Christmas brochure while buying some pastry from the local Delifrance cafe: I immediately thought of Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo (of South Park fame). While the resemblance is not uncanny, I’m pretty sure that’s one log cake I don’t want to eat.
Seen elsewhere: Glue sniffers on Singapore train
In: Asides
24 Dec 2006Tomorrow.sg has an entry with a photo of glue sniffing girls on a MRT train. This picture is tits (as Eric Cartman would say).
Mind your MySQL update syntax
In: Fun
22 Dec 2006Just noticed an insidious “bug” in MySQL when you use “AND”s instead of commas to separate the fields you are updating in your SET clause. Being a little rusty in SQL, I entered something like the query below while trying to make a quick fix to some records: UPDATE characters SET alignment = ‘Neutral Evil’ [...]
Firefox Secrets on Google Book Search
19 Dec 2006A GoogleAlert (not the Google Alert) email arrived in my inbox today alerting me to the Firefox Secrets entry on Google Book Search (that’s a book I wrote, for the uninitiated). It’s listed as a limited preview so only the first few pages of each chapter are available. If you’re interested in previewing a Firefox [...]
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