Category: General
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openscad is cool
UPDATE: You might also be interested in my list of programmatic CAD tools. Brendan introduced me to openscad while we were at the hacker space last night. I really like it and I can’t believe I didn’t try this tool out before. You essentially write your solid design in a programming language. Its simple to…
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bigcommerce support failure
I recently wanted to customise my bigcommerce site with some custom fields. Unfortunately support was unable to help me with this request. Apparantly what I want to do is possible, but it is secret and bigcommerce will not divulge this information. I discussed it in a chat session with bigcommerce support. Transcript follows: 12:58Jason Lewis: hi…
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modifying and building a debian package from source
I can’t work out where to document this so I’ll document it here – maybe it will help someone oneday. If you want to modify a debian package and then build it… apt-get source . Then cd – make whatever changes you need to make. debian/rules and debian/control.in are interesting. then do a ‘dch -n’…
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Fairtrade Chocolate – A Deliciously Rewarding Experience! | Soul Economy
Soul Economy have tried Cocolo and like it.
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Dark Chocolate: Are You Eating Child Slavery?
Nourished magazine have a nice piece entitled “Are You Eating Child Slavery” which mentions Cocolo.
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HSBC annoyances
A while ago I moved my banking to HSBC. This move has been pretty ok except there are a few annoyances with their online banking. the biggest of which is that you cannot get an electronic copy of a statement at all. In fact, the only way to get a copy of a statement is…
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DC Make Trade Fair!: Consuming with Conscience
Fair!: DC Make Trade Consuming with Conscience has a little post about Fair Trade chocolate and mentions Cocolo and where you can buy it.
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ping with timestamp
I couldn’t work out a way to get ping to print a timestamp of when the ping took place. For some reason it seems as though this isn’t a sought after feature. Luckily you can achieve the same thing using fping: while [ 1 ] ; do echo $(date ‘+%F %T’) $(fping -e google.com); sleep…