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WordPress pretty pagination plugin

During the recent redesign of my blog, I decided that I wanted to have pretty pagination with numbers instead of the WordPress default Older/Newer Posts links. The plugin I decided to use was WP Page Numbers by Jens Törnell. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 weeks ago, on February 13, 2010, at 22:02 | No comments

Exemplary web design: Qt

Often, I come across websites that have a beautiful design or even just interesting design elements. Instead of continuing to spread these URLs all over my $HOME and my (del.icio.us) bookmarks, I thought I'd start adding them here. Today, I want to start with an entry from ~/jot/exemplary-web-design.txt: Qt Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 weeks ago, on February 11, 2010, at 17:02 | No comments

Crimson Dark, a sci-fi webcomic

For a while now, I've been following Crimson Dark, which is a very cool, grimy sci-fi web comic. David Simon, the writer and artist, created quite the cynical bunch of characters. I love it. The story and dialog are a compliment to my intelligence, the artwork is nice (and getting better with each new chapter). Pure procrastinator's poetry, that's what it is. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 weeks ago, on February 10, 2010, at 02:02 | No comments

Cleanly managing CPAN packages in Gentoo with g-cpan

I'm playing with g-cpan to try to install WordPress::Post in Gentoo without causing the usual mess.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on February 05, 2010, at 03:02 | No comments

jQuery plugin for auto-growing textareas

With my big blog redesign, I wanted a auto-growing comment box. In the past, I've written a nice auto-resize textarea JavaScript function which does just that, but with jQuery belonging to the standard equipment of WordPress these days, I thought it would be cooler to find a nice jQuery plugin to do this. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on February 04, 2010, at 21:02 | No comments

Saving and loading iptables rules on Debian

For some reason, Debian can't do "/etc/init.d/iptables save". So, we have to fix something ourselves. I used this article as source, which also has some useful comments. Apparently, the iptables initscript used to exist... Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on February 03, 2010, at 14:02 | No comments

Linux OCR with Tesseract

I'm scanning old Flor y Fauna news letters for my Dutch Hardwood Investment Wiki. I need to do this because most of these newsletters, although produced digitally, are available in the Sicirec archive only in paper form. The only graphical item these news-letters sport is a simple graphical header, so I want to convert the scans to text and put the text in a wiki article for each newsletter; I don't want to upload dozens of image-heavy PDFs just to show the original (crappy) layout. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on February 02, 2010, at 17:02 | No comments

WordPress admin menu layout problem

In this WordPress installation I have a problem with my admin menu. If I add clear: left; to the rules for #adminmenu li.menu-top it appears to be fixed. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on February 02, 2010, at 11:02 | 1 comment

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is on-line free MIT text-book that uses Scheme in an attempt to give the reader a general and practical understanding of programming. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on February 01, 2010, at 01:02 | No comments

Matriux, a penetration testing and security analysis LiveCD

Matriux is a fully featured security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open source and free tools that can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network administration, cyber forensics investigations, security testing, vulnerability analysis, and much more. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on February 01, 2010, at 00:02 | 1 comment