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After making the sickipedia twitter bot, I decided to make another that made use of a little bit more of the Twitter API this time. I call him lyricbot. Basically, you send a reply to lyricbot (after you have followed) with a line from a song and it will have a red hot go at […]

I am about to reformat my computer, but have torrents in the middle of downloading and can’t wait until they are finished, so this little trick is a godsend.
Navigate to
C:\Users\Brendo\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
and back up the entire directory. (In Vista, not sure of the exact directory in XP)
Then navigate to your downloads folder
C:\Users\Brendo\Downloads
in my case, and back that […]

I am about to reformat my computer, but have torrents in the middle of downloading and can’t wait until they are finished, so this little trick is a godsend.
Navigate to
C:\Users\Brendo\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
and back up the entire directory. (In Vista, not sure of the exact directory in XP)
Then navigate to your downloads folder
C:\Users\Brendo\Downloads
in my case, and back that […]

In attempting to load our 1 year old mascot up with a myspace, I came across the “Not elligible” error. This was because I was trying to sign him up as a 1 year old, which was a mistake, because everyone knows a 1 year old dog can’t use myspace.
It turns out once you get […]

So I’m sure I’m not the only one who is extremely frustrated by all links that I click from Twhirl opening in Internet Explorer, even though I have Firefox set as my default browser.
It turns out this is some little quirk between Vista and Air, but it is fixable if you follow these steps:
Step 1:
Open […]

Just tried to change my name on facebook and before it gave me this:
Before confirming your name change request, please read the following.
* Your Facebook profile must be attached to your real name.
* You must include your full name.
* Celebrity names, nicknames, or other fake names are not allowed and will not be approved.
* Obscenity, […]

So I just got back from watching Wanted… I’m not going to say I didn’t like it, because I did. It just left me feeling a little awkward. I think this quote describes how I felt walking out of there, “It was like a reach around, then I turned around and it was from a […]

Tonight was one of the most frustrating games of indoor cricket I’ve played in a long time. It was the first time we have played at North Wollongong in our 4 seasons in the comp, and I never want to play there again. Every week we hear teams complain about it - the courts are […]

The expiring password is a practice that I am not a fan of.
I see the benefit(s?):

If someone has intercepted/cracked your password, changing it will block their access.
Umm…

I’m sure there are others… While I try to think of those, let’s look at the drawbacks:

Whenever you change your password it is something more that you have […]

After making the sickipedia twitter bot, I decided to make another that made use of a little bit more of the Twitter API this time. I call him lyricbot. Basically, you send a reply to lyricbot (after you have followed) with a line from a song and it will have a red hot go at […]

When playing with SSL certificates and Java I came across a very weird error that I could not find a solution to anywhere.
I had submitted my CSR and got the certificate back in an email, so I copied it and pasted it into a .cer file ready to SSL my applet, but when trying to […]

I have been playing around with Joomla! 1.5 and have found that some of the different options are nested quite deeply in the backend. The title of the front page is one of these options.
The location of it makes sense, though it is a little hard to get to. I have had to change it […]