After several hours of tweaking, I finally managed to get OpenCaptcha v1.1 released under the GPL. OpenCaptcha is a php script designed to dynamically create a captcha image in .png form. It uses a randomly chosen background, a randomly chosen string of a randomly chosen length, color, size, and orientation, along with randomly coloured and [...]
Only 6 weeks after our family dog Kiley died, we had to have our cat Franklin put to sleep. He was 9 years old, and until a week ago seemed happy and healthy.
Frank’s lungs were beginning to fill with fluid, and that was causing him difficulty breathing. Unfortunately there wasn’t anything we could do [...]
I was getting pretty tired of the Wordpress theme that I was using. I had played around with changing fonts and colours in the style sheet, but I haven’t been happy with the design for quite some time, so I decided to make my own theme.
I wanted something clean looking, so I decided to [...]
I’ve been using Synergy at work for a few months now. I have two computers and limited desk space, so having 2 keyboards, and two mice was too much clutter for me. Synergy was the perfect solution.
It’s a software KVM, so you still need the second display, but I actually prefer it that [...]
If anybody out there knows how to update a smart playlist that is selected at random, I’d really like to know. It seems that the only time you get random songs is when you first make the playlist. Do you have to add a condition that says “Not played in the last 7 [...]
I stumbled across this little gem of knowledge a few weeks ago. Who knew that a command as simple as mkdir could be this useful? I’m just starting a new web development project, and I was setting up my directory structure which involved sub-directories inside sub-directories. That’s a lot of typing (I [...]
This is something that’s been bugging me lately, so I went hunting for a fix. .DS_Store files are left behind in every directory you look at using your Mac…including network shares. They hold information about how the Finder window looked when you were there last (size, position, etc).
You don’t notice these [...]
Things are finally back to normal around here. The tree is down, the decorations are packed away, and the visiting is done. I guess the only thing left is the turkey.
We had Christmas dinner at my sister-in-law’s this year, so we didn’t have any turkey leftovers at all. That’s why we decided to [...]
For his home business, my father wanted 2 separate internet connections: one from Rogers, and one from Aliant. This is great for bandwidth, but it poses a problem when trying to network computers using Aliant with others using Rogers. I couldn’t find too much information about this on the internet, so I figured [...]
Last night we went to the the Quispamsis Town Hall to see local blues artist Matt Andersen play. It was awesome!
He was the only one on stage, and he played an acoustic guitar. He can definitely play! We were right up front, and there were times when I thought the guitar was going to break [...]
