blogging from Lilongwe

Read Mike McKay’s blog on living in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi. update: The blog address has changed to http://www.vdomck.org/blog/

Homesite 4.5.1 and Windows XP

If you’re still using HomeSite 4.5.1 on XP and you’ve activated automatic updates, you can start looking for an alternative HTML editor. I am. Couple of days ago my HomeSite kept crashing, everytime I clicked the Design tab. Displaying the following error message: No such interface supported. A DHTML patch in one of the recent… Continue reading Homesite 4.5.1 and Windows XP

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First of March

A pinch and punch for the first day of the month. No returns.* I like March. It’s my favorite month of the year! * From my good old school days at Saints

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8 days a week

via Language Log: Some rural West African languages still use their traditional eight-day week.

sunday morning snow

grey, cold, and snowing… i started out on my bike but decided to change to Bus und Tram cos I couldn’t see much with the fine snow blowing into my face. Here are some snapshots of the Basel ferry:

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inxmail

alternatives to InxMail?

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fernweh

no further explanatory words required…. source: Africaspotter.at.tt

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spelling variants

easyJet has plastered the following ad all across Basel: my alternative spelling suggestions: fussball Team or even better: fussballTeam, in line with their company logo

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ridiculous press releases block the PR wire

Sitepoint on the “new thing” in search engine optimization. It looks like press releases to services like prweb.com are going to go the same way that comments to blogs went…

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some thoughts

Some of my regular readers may remember that a while back I used to regularly post links to news about Malawi. One of my initial blogging ideas was to be a news aggregator for interesting internet articles on Malawi. Nchenga’s low-budget approach to crossing the digital divide. In the past months – actually since I… Continue reading some thoughts

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email habits

via 43folders: Shut off auto-check – Either turn off automatic checking completely, or set it to something reasonable, like every 20 minutes or so. If you’re doing anything with new email more than every few minutes, you might want to rethink your approach. I’m sure that some of you working in North Korean missile silos… Continue reading email habits

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una volta

vivevo in ticino….

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one of those blogging days…

today is just one of those blogging days, when I say to myself there are other hobbies out there… like fishing, or knitting! Hobbies which are less affected by intruders. Woke up this morning to find a MySQL error displaying… somehow I managed to resolve that. Sun is shining and I’m sitting here trying to… Continue reading one of those blogging days…

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picasa

I installed Picasa2 this week. Cos I am curious. Curious what Google is up to. So far I like it… It visualizes those long forgotten .jpgs deep down in the backwater of my hard disk across all directories. It’s like IrfanView but with a better user interface. I haven’t tried the basic fixes or tuning… Continue reading picasa

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in times of outsourcing

and offshoring, work means much more than doing your job. 6 tips to keep you working: Do not plan to write code for your entire career – code is a commodity and can be created by others for much less money Learn to communicate effectively – develop your public speaking and writing skills Develop people… Continue reading in times of outsourcing

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free and searchable corpus

Linguists, however, are slowly coming to discover the joys of a free and searchable corpus of maybe 10 trillion words that is available to anyone with an internet connection: the world wide web.

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pre-emptive project planning

I took part in last week’s STC web seminar on pre-emptive project planning by John Hedtke. Found it practical and useful. His main points: Plan ahead The real problem is the projects you don’t know about that land on your desk suddenly and without warning. Keep it simple Use a simple excel sheet to track… Continue reading pre-emptive project planning

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