I don’t know why this was as tough to figure out as it was, but here you go. I was trying to watch an MPEG-4 file in the .mp4 container, which I guess is somehow different than all the MPEG-4 videos in AVI containers that haven’t been an issue (e.g., xvid videos). But Media Player [...]
I recently installed a fresh copy of Windows XP onto an old machine, and I’m going through the endless cycles of Windows Update trying to get it secure enough to be used (after the most important first step, installing Firefox). I turned on automatic updates, which installed 18 or 19 patches, but didn’t do any [...]
I thought this was universally decided to be really bad practice a long time ago. If nothing else, at least back in Y2K, when there were lots of instances of web pages showing crazy dates in certain browsers. Doing it this way just seems unnecessarily complicated and fragile, and, sure enough, I only noticed because [...]
I don’t know why Windows has to be so annoying about things like this, but every now and then the “safely remove hardware” icon disappears from my system tray. Since I’m often switching around hard drives that I use with my IDE-to-USB adapter, I use that often. It took me a little while to find [...]
I’ve been thinking about putting Technorati-parsable tags in here for a while now, and just haven’t gotten around to it yet. So this is an experimental post to see if the tagging plugin I just installed will work the way I expect it to work.
The recent story about Congressional staffers editing their bosses’ Wikipedia entries sure shows that a lot of Congressional staffers don’t understand how Wikipedia works. Or maybe it’s just a lack of understanding of what an IP address is and how it leads back to your office? These people were editing pages to make their bosses [...]
The Blog.Worm may be cute, but a lot of people seem to be treating it as a new brilliant thing. Did everyone already forget the .signature virus from the olden days? You know, I’m a signature virus. Please add me to your signature and watch me spread!
This looks like a bug in PHP to me, but it’s been around over many versions, and I might just be missing something. It’s pretty weird. It took me well over an hour to track this down, so I’m writing it up in case it helps someone else. I’m developing a new site, and want [...]
I use Wp-StatTraq for WordPress stats. The downside is that it’s not updated very quickly for new versions of WordPress. Luckily, the same version of WP-StatTraq that was patched for WordPress 1.5.2 will work almost perfectly for WordPress 2.0 as well without any changes. But there is one issue.
When I wrote a sort of DSLR camera guide a few months back, I seem to have just skipped over Minolta’s DSLR line. I didn’t even give it a brief mention in passing like I did with Olympus and then explained why I skipped it in favor of Canon or Nikon. No, I just ignored [...]