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Gaim aim: protocol

Firefox says aim: “isn’t associated with any program”. I want to associate it with Gaim. How can I do that? A quick search brought me to this page, but there’s no definitive answer there: a comment notes that gaim-remote isn’t supported on Win32. Anyone have a solution?

WordPress Custom Fields and Keys

I just realized what Custom Fields are for! That stuff is genius. Keys and values. Reminds me of the Windows registry. Of course, lots of stuff uses the same kind of thing for organizing and storing data and config info. I’m going to install the WordPress Paged Comments plugin, found at Keyvan’s excellent site. //…Continue Reading…

How programmers think: Kryder’s law

I was reading about Moore’s law, which led me to Kryder’s law. What an interesting concept. I recently bought a new hard drive just last week, some $90 for a 250 GB drive. Just a few years ago, 4 GB drives were considered huge. Who could ever use that much space? Today, I can fill…Continue Reading…

What’s New in iTunes 6.0.4?

I hate when software programs ask me if I’d like to update, but don’t say anything about what’s coming in the next version. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but I have no idea what’s going to happen, and so I think of the worst. Being unable to revert back to the old version would be terrible….Continue Reading…

Google Loses to Yahoo

I spent a while trying to find a copy of the CSS Compress plugin for WordPress. wp-plugins.org is down, so I had to find a cached copy. I finally found it, with the URL: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/css-compress/trunk/css-compress.php?rev=1318 I tried to look this up in Google. cache:http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/css-compress/trunk/css-compress.php?rev=1318 No go. Google reports: “Your search … did not match any…Continue Reading…

The RPC server is unavailable: computer problems continue

It looks like I just have miscellaneous problems after that partition merger failure last weekend. I’m probably just going to bite the bullet and install a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 on the new 250 GB hard drive. It’s free, provided by MSDN AA (Academic Alliance) which is provided to all students taking…Continue Reading…