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
Fixing my Pelican to display images
I found that the Pelican site theme I was using was automatically expanding images to 100% width, which I didn’t want to have. I also wanted to use captions on my images. Thanks to Joe Lotz I was able to sort this out. This involved switching from the Pelican provided Python Markdown to Pandoc Markdown. Continue Reading
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