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Desktop USB Fondue Pot

Beergeek — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:40:58 +0000

ThinkGeek :: Fundue – desktop USB Fondue Set — Just what you need to ease the tedious work day. Hot Cheese!

GMail (Google’s Web EMail)

Beergeek — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:22:27 +0000

I’ve been testing out GMail for a month or so. Moved most of my personal e-mail to it.

So far it’s great. Once they have the ability to access the e-mail from IMAP or POP and to read other IMAP or POP accounts it will be perfect. I will likely then move all my personal e-mail to it.

Even Adobe prefers Windows

Beergeek — Thu, 27 Mar 2003 05:03:45 +0000

A study posted at Adobe’s website describes how traditionally Mac-centric tasks (rendering using After Effects, Illustrator & Photoshop) are all faster on a PC. These kinds of studies are a dime a dozen; what’s interesting isn’t which platform is faster, but that Adobe would host a page proclaiming the PC is the “preferred” platform for such tasks. Given the notoriously fickle folks at Quark, I would have pegged Adobe as the biggest Mac boosters in the third party software market. Are times changing?
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MoveableType Image Directory Show

Beergeek — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:59:40 +0000

Hey – look at me — I created a MoveableType plug-in that displays a directory of images in an entry. See the images below? Click MORE to see how I did it and get the source.

This is very specialized to my set up. No support is available. Your mileage may vary, don’t chew with your mouth open, look both ways before crossing the street.

I placed the following line in the Excerpt field for this entry:

show_dir|/home/web/htdocs/beergeek/photos/pictures/Best|3

This is a tag so that the plug-in knows there is a directory of images to show, and the number of images to show (3).

Then I created the plug in — named it mt-photodir.pl and placed it in the plugins directory of MoveableType. Source is here.

Then edit the templates you wish and place:

Where you want the images to be displayed. For me, I placed it in the main index and all of the archive templates just below the lines that said <$MTEntryBody$>.

Simple, eh?

Feel free to take the code and modify it. I just request that you keep my name and contact info somewhere in the source and you send me the changes you make. I might want to include them in my copy.

I’m just not too motivated…

Beergeek — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:01:14 +0000

This explains a lot.

according to a japanese study, as reported by lisa bowman, prolonged daily computer use can make you sore and sap your strength, energy and motivation. sounds about right.

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Copy a record in MySQL

Beergeek — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:12:55 +0000

An easy single command to copy a record from one table to another in MySQL:

   insert into destinationdb.destinationtable
     select * from sourcedatabase.sourcetable
     where code = ’123′;