Monthly Archives: February 2007

The flu still sucks

I’ve been lucky these last few years and haven’t really caught any bad bugs or viruses other than the two or three day sniffles. This week however, the flu made its triumphant return. Feel sorry for me.

The new PunBB developers blog

We just started up the PunBB DevBlog. Check it out if you’re interested in the development of PunBB. To get thing started, Connor Dunn posted a bit on the new post moderation queue feature in PunBB 1.3. I joined in and talked about making the switch to UTF-8.

A minor Firefox OSX annoyance

Maybe someone can help me with this. When you click a link to a file in Firefox, you get the “open” or “save as” box. If you select “save as”, Firefox saves the document to your default save directory. Perfect. This works exactly the way I like it in both Windows and OSX. Now, if [...]

Streaming Flash movies on IIS6

I’ve been struggling on and off with streaming a Flash video file (.flv) from within a Flash Player movie (.swf) on certain webservers. Took me a while before I realized the servers that were causing problems were all running Windows Server 2003 (and thus IIS6). When I realized IIS6 was the culprit, the solution was [...]

Dell Sweden redeems itself

Last week, I blogged about the price of Dell 24 inch monitors in Sweden (as compared to the US). At that time, the Dell monitor I want was listed for $1500 in Dell’s Swedish online store. In the US, it was listed for $674. Lo and behold, Dell Sweden apparently realized their price was absolutely [...]