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Cliffony photowalk of furious thunder: The routes

Day Three huzzahs to Darren for running Caira and I around the the Dartry Mountains last night! The scramble up [[Benbulben]] almost did it in for my poor cheap shoes, but the view out south across Sligo and into Co. Mayo was definitely worth it. We visited/drove by a few spots, but it was the [...]

My Unspeakably Marvelous Ubuntu Maverick Updates

Openbox Okay so: Since the occasion of my upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 last week, I have encountered unusual behaviour from gnome-settings-daemon, the Gnome settings daemon. When it launches under Openbox, it draws a new and additional root window right over my existing Openbox/X/GDM root window. This is a Bad Thing; the new root window effectively obliterates [...]

Howto: WordPress powered by Dropbox

As I have previously espoused, Dropbox is fucking awesome. After blogging about using my up remote instant message chat log storage, I turned my attention to managing a WordPress installation from Dropbox. Mostly because. Because it would be, for me, interesting, different and not a little bit cool to see if I can actually do [...]

Dropbox…

…is fucking awesome. Awesome. Fucking. Here are two fun uses: 1. Back up chat logs online: Example? Pidgin chat logs. cd .purple mv logs/ ../Dropbox ln -s /home/User/Dropbox/logs /home/User/.purple/logs/ On Windows (7)? Not a problem: Go to: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming.purple Move logs to your Dropbox folder and then open a command shell (cmd). Type in the following: [...]