Recently I started using Simplelogin. A wonderful service, it lets you create temporary email addresses and disable or delete them when you don’t want them anymore. I also get to redirect all my domain email through there so I can use throwaway email addresses with my own @lazaruk.com domain. But on the downside, Continue Reading
Note to self
Remember to Disable Caching
Remember when doing site development work to disable local caching in the browser dev tools.
PowerPoint Wrapping In The Middle of a Word
I had a PowerPoint document that I inherited where the text boxes were allowing words to be split in the middle of the word. Turns out the solution, copied/pasted below, was this: Your presentation was edited at one time on a computer running an oriental language. When that happened, an Continue Reading
My Problems with BOINC
I’m a long time user of BOINC. In fact I was an early user of the old SETI@Home project before BOINC was even established. Over the years I’ve tried some project managers with BOINC, starting with GridRepublic, and then moving to World Community Grid when I joined IBM in 2005. A few years ago Continue Reading
Updating Anaconda Navigator
For whatever reason my installations of Anaconda Navigator always refuse to update through the GUI. No matter how many times I click the Yes to upgrade, nothing happens. So finally I found 15 seconds where I was both tired of this situation and had the clarity of thought to do Continue Reading