I just set up Postfix and Dovecot on my Ubuntu VPS … thanks to this tutorial it was … not painless exactly, but not half as bad as I was afraid it would be. Great tutorial, highly recommended - it’s for Debian but I think there was only one small change required to use it [...]

At last, an orthodox file manager for OS X … that is, not just something that runs on OS X (like the Java app muCommander or KDE’s Krusader, which runs via X Windows), but a proper native app. I’ve just installed XFolders, and it’s brilliant - sehr gut!

Isn’t it a great feeling when a project that you’ve been working on for a long time finally goes live?
Introducing Makebook: a web app that lets you create books and manage a library of stories, recipes, poems, whatever … I’ve been developing the Flex front end for about 7-8 months now, and it’s been [...]

I just tried logging in to my Sydney Uni email and found they’ve switched to Outlook Web Access.
What a staggering piece of stupidity. Locking an academic email facility in to a commercial third party is a wrong move in the first place. Given that they made this bad decision, why use Outlook Web Access [...]

It is despicable, though not surprising, that Obama is trying to block the release of photographs of abuse of prisoners in Iraq. This is not small stuff, this is the rape of minors: abominations, atrocities.
The reaction of liberals like Michael Tomasky, equivocating over an action (suppression of the evidence) that is so transparently wrong, is [...]

A comment on Mike Chamer’s post on Vectors in AS3 got me thinking .. how hard would it be implement a VectorCollection in AS3? I use Vectors all the time now but sometimes I want a collection class (with events, filtering, etc) that also can be typed. What I’m hoping for is to be able [...]

The Bush administration was characterised by a curious indifference to inconvenient facts. Not just bare-faced lies, such as Iraq’s fearsome and non-existent arsenal, or the disingenuous obfuscation of scientific evidence to muddy the waters on climate change; they also denied reality to themselves, in a way that elevated incompetence to self-sabotage (de-Baathification, the economy). The [...]

The new Star Trek movie is good, much better than I had anticipated. After the abominable Star Wars prequels, I was sceptical about the recent trend for “rebooting”. But, as with James Bond and Batman, this new movie maintains the spirit of the original series while adding some fresh touches. The casting of the young [...]

I wrote a post on LiberalConspiracy.org about the poor choices on offer for left-inclined voters in the UK.

The latest version of Quentin T’s Boks, a visual grid editor for Blueprint CSS, is out. I’m pleased to notice (thanks to Quentin’s head up) that to generate random text, it uses part of my Almirun Common Library, which in turn connects to the Lipsum service. Isn’t open source ace.