I do wish that the Libronix Digital Library System (Libronix DLS) which is the engine behind my Bible software package (Nelson’s Ultimate Bible Reference) had a built-in module for displaying the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL).
It looks like there is a Lectionary Viewer Addin, but it’s not part of this package.
I’ve emailed Logos technical support to see if this is available for my product.
It would appear from these 13 emails that I received this afternoon — in the seven minutes between 14:02 and 14:09 — that access has been locked to my Egg Internet Banking account.
That might otherwise concern me, were it not for the fact that I don’t actually bank with Egg Internet Banking. I have a shoebox stuffed with cash stored securely in the safe of another UK bank.
Don’tcha just love spam!
Remember folks, if you get an email purporting to be from your bank: treat it with the utmost suspicion. I don’t ever remember my bank ever emailing me. If in doubt: phone the bank, or visit your local branch, never reply to those emails.
Apart from that one time when I had to arrange for US $23,000,000 to be paid into it for a couple of weeks while I was helping out some displaced African prince who’d kindly got in touch with me via email.
The ironic thing about Deep Heat spray is that it always goes on so cold!
And then the burning begins.
My lower back is on the mend.
Conversation about content management systems on instant messenger. We were talking about Plone:
Colleague #1: BTW Why did [the University] abandon Plone?
Colleague #2: In Plone you can’t mirror content.
Me: In Plone no one can hear you scream!
Actually, to be fair we’re still using Plone for some intranet work.
Still, it made me laugh.
Last week I ordered The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite by Rich Bowen on Amazon UK.
It arrived today, and I’m nearly one third through it already. It’s a really well written, easy to read book about that mysterious “Swiss Army Knife” or URL manipulation.
For those who don’t know, mod_rewrite is what makes WordPress web addresses (URLs) so friendly.
So this evening I’m playing with a cool application called The Regex Coach, which allows you to play with regular expressions (often shortened to ‘regex’) and see how they react to some example text that you give it.
Fancy starting a new campaign with me? It’s a campaign of collusion for Web designers and it’s really pretty simple, I can’t believe that we’ve not thought of it sooner.
Here’s how it goes: we all agree to completely ignore the existence of Internet Explorer!
That’s it! As simple as that.
It will, of course, lead to conversations like this:
Client: That new site you’ve just designed, it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer
Web designer: Inter.. what?
Client: Internet Explorer. My web browser. Internet Explorer 7. IE7?
Web designer: IE7? Never heard of it.
Client: You must have heard of it. Internet Explorer! It comes installed on every Windows PC.
Web designer: It’s not on mine. Seriously? It’s called IE7? … nope! Really doesn’t ring a bell, I’m afraid. It must be one of those really tiny, unpopular browsers. We don’t support those, there’s no point.
That’s my dream anyway, and has absolutely nothing to do with my spending a week debugging some code in IE6 and IE7 … whatever they are.
What a brilliant idea! On the ColorWars2008 website: Young me, Now me: recreated poses of photos of folks when they were younger.
Fantastic! Borr has ported the Firefox 2 theme for Firefox 3.
Full power of new gecko engine with a good old Firefox 2 face.
His blog is written in both Russian and English, if you want to practice your Cyrillic character recognition skills.
I’m a happy Firefox user again — I just find that theme really easy to use and clearer than the Fx3 offering.
It appears that the Tab Mix Plus (TMP) add-on has an issue with this theme. For some reason TMP interferes (their developer used the word ‘handles’) with the icon, and so it depends on the size of the images that the theme author uses.
What happens, with this and other themes, is a mismatch in which icon is being shown on background tabs, so you get half red icon / half grey icon:
However, there is a work-around that requires the Stylish add-on to be installed. Use this Stylish code to overrule the TMP meddling: Custom Firefox tabs close button (Firefox 3).
A bit of a faff, but at least there is a workaround that still allows me to use my favourite Firefox 2 buttons.
For most of today I’ve been sorting out two file-storage boxes filled to overflowing with photographs.
They are now, for the most part, stored neatly in photo albums (Boots have a two-for-one deal on them just now).
Only got about 800 photos to file away now.
And to celebrate the photos too rubbish to throw away I’ve started a new blog to share them with the world: My rubbish photos.
Here’s a weird thing. Ever since installing my new webcam (Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 with QuickCam v11.7 software) and after using it for a while, mostly with Seesmic my MP3s play at about 3x or 4x normal speed. They should like a chipmunk band!
I’m still trying to work out what the issue is. Could it be to do with the way that Adobe Flash Player is interacting with the webcam and audio input/output?
Strangely, normal service resumed as soon as I’d closed the Seesmic tab in Firefox and closed down Twhirl (Twitter client).
I’m also not sure what software/drivers I should have installed. It came with QuickCam v11.7 but the download version (for XP) from the Logitech website is QuickCam v11.5. Hmmm…
Saturday 21 June
I’ve just uninstalled Adobe Flash Player and reinstalled it. Everything appears to be working as expected now, which is promising. That may have been the issue … I’ll keep an eye on it.
Friday 27 June
The problem is still continuing, although not as much as previously. It happened again this morning when I fired up WinAmp. However, I’ve discoverd that if I exit from Last.fm that fixes the problem. Not sure what’s going on. Seems to have happened around the time when I upgraded to Firefox 3 and installed the Logitech webcam.
Investigations continue …
Wednesday 02 July
Having lived with this issue over the last couple of weeks, it certainly looks as though the main culprits are Flash player in Firefox 3.0 and Last.fm. The audio in WinAmp just went ‘chipmunk’ again this morning and wasn’t resolved until I did the following:
Music returned to its normal tempo. Very odd, rather annoying.
