September 2006
12 posts
Probo Koala
This case has really been making headlines for the past week in the Estonian autumn. The only other piece of current news here is the presidential elections, but as that got done last Saturday, the Probo Koala is already somewhat overshadowing it.
I’m happy of its outcome. I think getting this right from now on is bigger than most people in Estonia realize, and is what being part of the...
Strange Movabletype 3.2 bug "maketext doesn't know...
More on Movabletype. I just hit this bug. When I made a template and named it “_something.php” so that the name started with underscore, I started getting this maketext error as soon as I tried to review the template listing. The only way to fix that was to manually update the template_name column value in the database to no longer start with underscore, and this fixed it, and I could...
A Movable Type plugin
I was supposed to do a bunch of stuff tonight, but skipped it and instead did my first Movable Type plugin from scratch. Harder than I expected, since it’s Perl which has its own funny conventions. Also I found the documentation on the MT site quite lacking. I could find a lot of useful examples with Google, however, such as this.
So the whole experience consisted of googling for MT plugin...
Estonians no longer require a visa to enter Canada
Estonian and Canadian relations were quite heated a few years ago. Some years ago, some cultural dignitories were even sent back from Canada for reasons not explained thoroughly enough, and there was a sort of “visa war” going on.
So after a long hiatus on this front, it was great to hear in today’s news that Estonians no longer need a visa to enter Canada. Really cool. I...
Toasting the iMac and Firefox, and the usable...
I’ve toasted a bunch of things lately. Luckily, non-fatally.
First it was the iMac. I thought I’d try Bootcamp and install a dualboot with Windows XP. All the Bootcamp docs said to use XP with SP2 on the disk. “What the heck,” said little Jaanus. “XP is XP, I’ll just use an old boxed vanilla XP which I happen to have, nevermind that it doesn’t have...
Why I still use e-mail over Skype Chat
A while ago, we published this piece saying Skype chat is greater than e-mail. (corrected, thanks Jim)
Chatting is one of Skype’s main features apart from calling and contact management. And we’d like to tell you of our hidden agenda of making Skype Chat an e-mail killer.
Yep… this is what I wrote with my own little bare hands.
Yet months go by, and what I find is that in business...
Delete, move, keep...
Ouch. Apple products and iTunes are generally well-usable, but someone did a sloppy job with this dialog. I watched a video podcast and then wanted to delete it and this is the confirmation dialog. Why does a simple “delete/donotdelete” decision need five rows in two fonts to explain?
Getting Skype API to work with PHP over COM
Adam asked how to get the Skype API to work with PHP over COM. Sounded like another fun project so I thought what the heck, let’s give it a whirl. And I got it to work. Sort of.
Prerequisites…
a recent version of Skype for Windows (I’m using a recent internal developer version, which from the API perspective should be pretty close to the latest 2.6 beta)
installed Skype4COM...
Early morning, Paris, lounges and gate changes
Had a pretty strange travel experience yesterday when coming from Luxembourg to Tallinn. Some bumps in the road, or rather in the airports, but ended up home in one piece still… only to be greeted by other trouble.
Woke up 4:45 (ouch) to reach the 7:00 morning plane from Luxembourg to Paris-CDG. Nothing extraordinary, except they couldn’t book me for the Paris-Tallinn flight and I...
Submit your idea for a future spy product
I used to work with Foe who’s now doing a “Future Spy” exhibition for kids in the Science Museum. She has put out a call for future spy product ideas. Deadline: Sept 29, so just a few weeks to go.
Jim Carlton's "Apple"
Just finished Jim Carlton’s “Apple”. Thanks to Priidu, one of the most dedicated Macheads (in a good way), for suggesting and lending it. A fascinating story written before the “Apple comeback” when the company was in serious trouble, the book was completed in mid-1998, before the iPod, iBook and most other Apple’s great achievements of the past 10 years....
BlāK sūKs
Coke is said to be moving into coffee market. Based on my experience, Starbucks has nothing to worry about.
I’m a big fan of coffee. And a big fan of Coke too. If they’re in the same bottle though, mixed, and I’m drinking them at the same time, there’s one word for it. “SūKs.”
I’ve had BlāK and didn’t like it one single bit. The cold coffee...
