ok, going away for a while
27th February 2007 - 19:42 / [Permalink]
I keep on and on about this redesign and keep getting half way through then stopping. I need some sort of inspiration and motivation to actually get on with it.
What I think I'm going to do is take down my existing site until I get the new one up and running. That way I'm a) paying for hosting I'm not using and b) shaming myself into doing it by not having a site.
I'm going to transfer what I consider to be the useful content from this incarnation of the site over to the new one and I'll just dump the old rubbish. I know I've said before that my next site will likely be powered by textpattern but I've since decided it's actually more likely to be wordpress now.
Until then...
well that seemed to work
22nd November 2006 - 10:32 / [Permalink]
Right then, if you're reading this I'm still here and the changes I made appear to have worked. w00t.
Even have some things working that 34sp (my host) says you can't do, balls to that.
dns changes ahoy
16th November 2006 - 18:42 / [Permalink]
Now I know that no-one actually reads my site any more but I'll put this out there in case anyone comes across it.
I'm attempting to change the way the DNS for my domain works and this may end up meaning that the site disappears from all existence. If this does happen I'll restore it to the old way it worked.
However, if it all works perfectly you'll hopefully not notice anything different and can read this message with a WTF look.
With any luck I'll still be here in 72 hours.
rid the world of caps lock!
27th September 2006 - 21:19 / [Permalink]
Well, I figured as I haven't got around to a redesign/recode/replacement of the site yet I better post something on here. You never know, some people might even find this useful too.
I've been working on a laptop recently and one thing has really been bugging me, every time I go for the Ctrl key I'm hitting the Fn key in the corner of the keyboard instead, as you can imagine this is slightly annoying. Another thing that has bugged me about every keyboard for a long while is the caps lock key. I never use it and it sits there taunting me everytime I acciDENTALLY HIT IT.
So then, two birds with one stone, I wondered if it was possible to remap the caps lock key to be another Ctrl. Turns out it's actually pretty easy (as long as you're running 2k or XP).
Warning: This does require editing the registry. If you're not confident with doing so it's probably best to steer clear, or at least take a backup so you can fix it if you break it all horribly.
The first thing to do is to open up regedit and navigate your way to HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layout. There is also a registry key Keyboard Layouts, this is not the one you want. When you have located the Keyboard Layout key right click in the right hand pane and select new binary value. Call this new value Scancode Map.
If you now double click on the scancode map value you'll get a window popup where you can edit the value. To remap caps lock to ctrl enter the following into the window:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
02 00 00 00 1d 00 3a 00
00 00 00 00
Reboot the machine and you should find yourself rid of the caps lock key and with a shiny new ctrl in it's place.
Another quick example, if you wanted to remap the caps lock key to something like scroll lock as well as making caps lock into a ctrl enter the following into the scancode map registry value:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
03 00 00 00 1d 00 3a 00
3a 00 46 00 00 00 00 00
Reboot and there you go.
For more information on remapping of scan codes see Scan Code Mapper for Windows. You can find a table of scancodes for the other keys in the keyboard scan code specification , take a look at the scan code table starting on page 16. The code to look for is in the first column "scan 1 make" and the one next to the key name. E.g. The code for caps lock is 3A and L Ctrl is 1D. If the direct link doesn't work look for the document on Keyboard Scan Codes.
I hope someone that reads this finds this useful, and even if they don't I can feel I've done my bit in the war against caps lock ;-).
Hey, Look
3rd April 2006 - 22:11 / [Permalink]
No, amazing as it may seem I'm still not dead. Just hibernating.
I've just re-enabled the recent music bar over on the right, it's now powered by last.fm which seems to just be audioscrobbler under a new name.
I really must do something with this site in the near future, having it just sat here is a waste of space and money.
So, err, something will happen, till then...