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Batch re-naming epub files 16 Mar 2012 | 12:59 am
Problem – you have a directory full of epub files with names like 1234.epub and 4567.epub files, and what you’d really like to have is all those files organised into directories by author name, and th...
Converting EMF to SVG 3 Feb 2012 | 07:46 am
This is one of those “in case I ever need to do it again” posts. Converting EMF files to SVG files – sounds like it should be a simple task, translating from one vector format to another. It turned ou...
Evolution 20 Dec 2011 | 01:11 am
After many years as a dedicated user of Thunderbird as a mail and news client, along with the Lightning add-on for calendar and tasks, my list of gripes suddenly reached breaking point this week. I wo...
Design for Reading 26 Nov 2011 | 12:07 am
Via one of Tim Bray’s tab sweeps, which are always good for picking up something interesting you might have missed, I happened to click through to an article telling me all about how to publish things...
Galaxy S Screen Replacement 5 Aug 2011 | 08:28 pm
Whoops. That’s what happens when an ‘indestructible’ AMOLED screen meets a stone driveway. To be fair, it must have to meet it at just the wrong angle, because I’ve dropped it zillions of times before...
Aboyne (vb) 8 Jul 2011 | 08:12 pm
As defined by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff, to aboyne is to beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any ...
Books (chapter six) 7 Jul 2011 | 10:03 am
Time to try and catch up with the “what books I’ve been reading” thing. Here’s a partial list since last time. I’ll let the rest roll over into the next one, and I’ll be more brief than ever about the...
Royal Wedding Commemorative Shelf 30 Apr 2011 | 08:11 am
I made a shelf today, which I have decided is going to be called the Royal Wedding Commemorative Shelf. I’m going to paint that on the bottom, perhaps with an appropriately tacky picture if I’m feelin...
Pirate Culture 12 Feb 2011 | 01:07 pm
TL;DR – Take your DRM and sling your hook It all started when I finished reading one book and got a few pages into another I didn’t really want to read. It occurred to me that it must be about time f...
Addresses 14 Dec 2010 | 01:54 am
Not particularly topical or relevant to anything, but Longrider just reminded me about it by complaining about people not addressing letters properly. If you don’t know the address, the answer is sim...
