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Take a LiteStep

• February 23rd, 2004
• Posted in Das Blinkin Lights
• By Drew

Time to tune up my desktop interface. Currently playing with a system called LiteStep – it replaces the Windows explorer.exe as my interface (shell). My current theme is Glaze – very minimilist. So far I have had no real problems with the different applications I use – even VirtuaWin seems to be No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Are you human?

• February 20th, 2004
• Posted in Das Blinkin Lights
• By Drew

I am working slowly on a system that will (attempt) to restrict my web site/server to human traffic only. My current plans are to use a combination of captcha and Apache::AuthCookie. More on information on captcha can be found here. So far I have a functioning captcha test. Most of my time has Related posts:

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A return to web-logging?

• February 17th, 2004
• Posted in Das Blinkin Lights
• By Drew

A 3-4 month hiatus from entries – not a great trend. Thanks to an anonymous dumpster dive I now have a web cam – added a snap to the front page here – how about that! Still working out the kinks – the snap is a full size image simply resized with HTML Related posts:

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Time has passed

• October 1st, 2003
• Posted in Das Blinkin Lights
• By Drew

Yes it has. I had really hoped to keep this much more up to date, but I keep finding things to take me away from it — or at least sufficiently distract me. Nifty web tools: AmphetaDesk Layout-o-Matic List-o-matic Web Development Bookmarklets No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

An external editor – to allow more prolific posting

• August 18th, 2003
• Posted in Das Blinkin Lights
• By Drew

A test post of sorts. The editor of the moment is Zempt — looks like a winner so far. A downside appears to be that I can’t save to the blog as a draft. Dang it. Another neuance is that posts made with it are adding the ‘TrackBack’ ping item below, gerrr. Lets see Related posts:

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