I have chosen to censor news.google.com
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Tue, 27/04/2010 - 20:24
I'm pretty sick of sensationalist news stories about crime and car crashes so I've written a GreaseMonkey script which hides them from me when I'm using http://news.google.com
You can get the script from http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/75346
Read moreGetting ASP.Net 1.1 running on linux - a trap for Ubuntu 9.04 users
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Thu, 15/04/2010 - 20:06On 9.04 when you install mono from the repos by following these instructions, (and opt not to install ASP.Net 2.0 and just go with the default of 1.0) then you end up with a mis-configuration of the web server - it's looking for the 2.0 version of the .Net framework when all you have is 1.0. This will be evidenced by these lines in /var/log/apache2/error.log
Read moreTired of nzherald.co.nz splitting articles across multiple pages? You need this
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Mon, 22/02/2010 - 22:40I've written a wee Greasemonkey script which detects when you're looking at a nzherald news article that has multiple pages, and redirects you to the version of the article which is a single longer page.
It's my first Greasemonkey script. I already know Javascript, so it was really easy especially with this fantastic free book on the subject.
Enough of my yammering. You can download it here.
Read moreExactly what is wrong with SUV's
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Tue, 12/01/2010 - 15:14I spent some time driving over the holidays, and came up against a surprising amount of SUV's, tearing around on dirt roads towing boats, jet-skis, etc. The below rant I ran across on the intertubes sums up by feelings perfectly
Read moreSending encrypted email with PGP
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Fri, 08/01/2010 - 17:42It appears that New Zealand is becoming a bit more of a police state, with pretty much all internet activity able to be monitored. This feels a bit creepy, so in response I've taken the 10 minutes necessary to learn how to encrypt my email.
Read moreMerry Christmas! Now, one last kick in the teeth for the year...
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Sun, 27/12/2009 - 15:11The unemployment benefit will only last for 1 year. Yes, during in the worst recession in 70 years
also
Read moreA really simple way to figure out how much emissions cuts each country must make
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Sat, 19/12/2009 - 12:52(amount of emissions required to get to 350 ppm / population of the earth) = allowed emissions per capita allowed emissions per capita * number of people in country = country's future emissions level for each country country's current emissions level - country's future emissions level = required cuts per country end
Everyone in the world has the same right to pollute as much as anyone else. It makes no difference which side of a line on a map that they live, because the atmosphere is global.
Read moreFirst page not printing in IE 7
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Thu, 17/12/2009 - 15:56A weird problem was happening on one of my sites where IE 7 could print off a web page, but the first page of printing was blank - the content wasn't pushed off to the second page, the first page was simply empty and the second continued on from where the first would have ended.
The solution is easy when you know how: set up a print-only stylesheet that is for IE 7 only, by using the usual <!-- [if IE 7]> method, then in that stylesheet have
html *{
float:none !important;
}
that's all! Thanks to Robby @ basetwo for tracking this down
In which I rip the shit out of stuff.co.nz
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Sat, 17/10/2009 - 12:33I've relied on blogs as my main news source for quite a while. I only read the newspaper for entertainment, and don't have a TV. It changes you - after a while, the vacuousness of the mainstream media is not something you can return to.
Here is what I see now, when I go to a normal news web site like stuff.co.nz (click picture for larger version)
My Submission on National's ETS emendment bill
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Mon, 12/10/2009 - 21:23Hi
I oppose the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill, mostly because of the intensity based allocation. Intensity based allocation offers polluters little incentive to reduce emissions, instead it merely provides an incentive not to emit any more (as a ratio of production) than they do already. So if production goes up then emissions can also, as long as emissions only go up by the same amount. Further, when this happens the taxpayer will pick up the tab for the extra emissions as this ETS only allocates carbon within NZ and we (the country as a whole) will still need to meet our international obligations.
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