http://www.skrill.org Colen's Blog Sat, 08 May 2010 01:50:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My 3G 32gb iPad arrived last week, and I've been playing with it since then. As one of the finest technology reviewers on the internet (?), it's obviously my duty to let everyone know how I feel about it. Heed my thoughts! Let's start with the bad things. First - it's ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=76 Most of my readers (all 5 of you) know that I've been using Twitter for a while, as @ColenMcA. I signed up mostly so I could try and figure out what this thing was all about - why was everyone talking about twitter? What made it so interesting and cool? (Dear ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=74 For a long time I've heard good things about Dell, and about their customer service for business machines. Assuming you paid a bit extra to skip the basic "people who can't speak English" level of support, they would take care of whatever problems you had with stuff. Based on this good ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=73 A cunning trick I discovered today. To suppress error reporting for a command in a makefile, prepend it with a dash character. For example, this command will fail and stop the build if the directory already exists: mkdir c:\somefolder However, this command will ignore the error and press on - perfect if ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=72 Bad Scorponok, never updating any more, etc. Hopefully people are using RSS feeds to view this, so they actually see that I've written something. So what have I done in the last year? Let's see... My apartment is now even more of a mess than it was, although I'm starting to clear ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=71 So I've been using Vista on my new development machine for a couple of days, after spending the entire weekend getting it set up (ugh). Here are the good things about it so far: Breadcrumbs - In explorer, it shows that you're in "c:\Xxx\Yyy\Zzz" as before, but if you click on ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=69 <al-qadim> I need a program for my blackberry to roll all my dice for 40k <al-qadim> so like when 2 squads of fire warriors rapid fire it just shows me a chart of my 48 shots <scorponok> but that's not as much fun as rolling lots of dice <: <khaine_> gaming is a ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=68 So we just went to the Wizards announcement of D&D 4th edition. Here's what I remember: The new Player's Handbook is coming out in May 2008. MM in June, DMG in July. The core classes are going to level 30, not level 20. Classes are going to have more clearly defined "roles". I'm ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=67 "Your download will begin shortly. If it doesn't, please click here to start it now!" Why? Why do I have to click anything? I'm a busy man, I don't want to wait 10 seconds from when the page loads to download your stupid file. Why can't you just give me it ... http://www.skrill.org/?p=66 Just updated Wordpress and installed Akismet to deal with a sudden influx of spam. Let's hope this fixes it... http://www.skrill.org/?p=65