I hate Microsoft SharePoint with a passion. It is the most utterly useless pile of turd they have released since WinME. When viewing a folder of documents, I am given the option to "View in Windows Explorer" no matter what browser I use, but knowing the compatibility issues trying to load this in Firefox under Linux would present, I log in to a remote Windows system and open it in Internet Exploder. What am I presented with?

"Your client does not support loading this folder in Windows Explorer." ...click to continue...

I have found what could probably be considered my first "silly" gripe with Drupal, and that is the default action for Anonymous comments. Since I don't necessarily plan to start opening regular accounts for people (not enough traffic will ever visit this site to warrant that, let's be honest), comments to blog entries and the ilk will be of the "anonymous" kind, which is fine and dandy. I think just about any blogging tool allows this now. ...click to continue...

I've somehow always found the idea of blogging to be extremely complex for something that is seemingly so simple: "Write what you want to write about when you want to write about it, irrespective of having anyone reading it" pretty much sums up the overall premise of the task at hand, but at the same time we still want someone out there to read it, which forces us into writing something that we think will be entertaining to someone else, but can also impede from writing either what we want to write, or writing it when we want to write it. ...click to continue...

Slowly but surely I'm managing to integrate everything I can into my personal webpage, and it's becoming easier as I go along. The idea being that I want my webpage to update itself when I post to various different locations (so new videos on YouTube and my severely infrequent updates to Twitter aggregate here), as well as the webpage itself to then pea roast certain content to social networking sites to link back to it (ie. ...click to continue...

I'm not entirely sure why I'm trying this, but here goes. I've been upgrading the modules on my site to get the latest security patches installed, functionality upgraded, and what-not. In the process, I managed to break my photo gallery, and a couple of other bits and bobs, but now all is good. I did however point my curiousity at seeing if there is a Twitter plug-in for Drupal, and lo there is. I've installed it, and... it does sod all. Back to the drawing board. ...click to continue...

Originally posted on Spontaneous Verbal Diarrhoea, August 2006

It's funny to think that I've been online for about 15 years now. I've gone from cruising around at a leisurely pace of 28.8kbps to suddenly rocketing toward infinity and beyond at bugger knows how many meg per second. And yet so easily we take it for granted. ...click to continue...

In view of recent events, the next blog entry I write should really be about the growth of my family, but that's the sort of thing that I need to sit down and write about when I have a brain that is not full of mashed potatoes and work-related madness. So instead I'm going to ramble on in a tone bordering on excitement about the latest version of my personal favourite operating system, Mepis Linux 8.5.

I can't quite remember how being introduced to Mepis came about, but it must have been around version 6 (so somewhat late), and since then I have been shamelessly peddling and plugging it to just about anyone who mentions the words "hate" and "Windows" in the same sentence, which turns out to be around about 90% of the people I encounter on a day to day basis. Why you may ask? It boils down to this: ...click to continue...

For ages I've had a horrendous nagging problem with streaming from my media server. Admitedly, I am, by no means, using the most efficient method of getting files from A to B, A being the aforementioned Mepis Media Server, which we'll now call Librarian, and B being the workhorse I spend most of my time on either editing, recording, splattering zombies, or all of the above at the same time, which we'll now call Hex. ...click to continue...