How to upgrade Mozilla – Win32

On windows, if you use a previous version of Mozilla, and decide to upgrade to version 1.4, there is only one way to do it safely: install into a new directory. You can leave your older one installed, but don’t think you can install on top of it, or even (gasp), uninstall it and install [...]

Pictures on the web

Last night I spent sometime placing photos of our recent vacation on the web. Before doing this, I gave some thought to how I wanted them, and I came up with some requirements:

Application must auto-generate thumbnails It must handle both standard, and slideshow presentations It must be a mature program (no 0.23 version) It [...]

Rain, when you don’t need it

Last week, Northern Indiana received 12 – 15 inches of rain. Lot’s of flooding which is only now beginning to subside. (Monday the flood alerts stopped). What do we get today? More rain. Sheesh. We just returned from a visit to Arizona which is in a drought, five years long. Someone needs to figure out [...]

Zempt

Sometime ago, I wrote about Zempt, a little app that lets one add entries to a weblog. At the time it wouldn’t work for me, because at work I access the web through a Squid proxy. Recently a new version was released, with support for proxies. Today I installed it, only to be find it [...]

Wikis and blogging

After having fun(read: frustration) with tikiwiki, I’ve finally figured out the rather odd way of configuring permissions in it. However, after a while of playing with it, I’ve decided to give it up. The main reason? It is far too bloated. Yes, it has a *lot* of features, but what I would want is something [...]