A blast from the past – Engadget 1985 BBS post

Check out this post over at engadget. It will bring you back to the days before Internet, when dialling up to a local BBS was the evening’s entertainment*. The excitement of choosing which piece of shareware to download, knowing that it would take an hour and would use up the daily 100Kb download limit. *This [...]

Google Talk: Day One

Google Talk steals my dialog boxes

Anakin’s Father

A theory on the identity of Anakin Skywalker’s father

Applet to bypass Character Map for common symbols

An applet that allows you to enter common non-keyboard symbols without using Character Map or fancy keystroke combinations.

Exporting all posts from a .Text (dottext) blog via RSS

How to modify .Text (dottext) to remove the hard-coded limit of 10 posts for the RSS feed.

Outlook feature request: children’s unread item count for folders

I use NewsGator Outlook Edition as my RSS aggregator, which creates an Outlook message for every post of every feed to which I subscribe. My feeds are semi-organised into subfolders and there are a lot of them. When I have the tree fully expanded it is about a screen and a half high. This is [...]