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Ever since we installed version 2.x of dotProject, creating a new task now causes a non-fatal error: Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /[…pathtodotproject…]/lib/PEAR/Date.php on line 179 Thanks to glynnsmith
Continue readingAt work I use DAVE by Thursby Software to improve my Mac’s compatibility with the Windows network. Without it, I can connect to the network, but things are never quite right, and Dave just seems
Continue readingRunning Always Run Menu: World > Always Run Key Command: PC Ctrl-R , Mac Cmd-R) Run only when you want to Enable the Advanced menu Key Command: PC Ctrl+Alt+D or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D Mac: Option+Control+D Enable Double
Continue readingThe British Museum, probably my favorite museum in the whole world, is a monument to curiosity, exploration and a refreshingly innocent nineteenth-century sense of national entitlement to the best the world has to offer.
The Great Court of the British Museum, transformed into a glass-covered public space in 2000 for the millennium. More…
My ipod classic died again the other day, after being alternately frozen and baked in my car for several months. I don’t believe in coddling my appliances. I tried the frozen ipod reset trick, and
Continue readingBlocking TGF-β-Smad2/3 innate immune signaling mitigates Alzheimer-like pathology.
A new possible treatment target has been demonstrated by a group of researchers working with transgenic mice that are used to model Alzheimer’s in humans. According to New Scientist:
“Richard Flavell at Yale University and colleagues created transgenic mice predisposed to develop brain plaques, and doubly transgenic mice that also had a gene that blocks TGF-beta, a chemical used by the immune system.”
“The researchers expected the second set to fare worse than the first. But to their surprise, the doubly transgenic mice performed better on various mazes”…
Continue readingHostgator recently migrated all its customers to php5. So far I’ve found very few problems with this but I had an old dotproject version on one site, and began getting the error: Fatal error: Call
Continue readingNote: this tutorial is still very much in draft form. Additional instructions for those not familiar with javascript and more examples will be added soon.
The Jeroen Wijering Media Player is a widely used free, open-source Flash-based media player, available for download from Jeroenwijering.com.
The JW player has an extensive Javascript API which allows it to communicate with events and elements on the page it is embedded in. Using this feature, the player can execute javascript functions on the page whenever the video reaches a specific time point.
Continue readingiPresent is new software for Windows that creates synchronized powerpoint and video presentations. It outputs to a variety of formats, but I purchased it for its Flash output capabilities.
However, when I output a file using the latest version, I found that IE6 was giving an error whenever a Table of contents button or slide thumbnail was clicked on:
It seems a species of pig that was thought to be extinct was really just hiding out in people’s gardens. They have been rescued from the brink, and are being re-introduced to the wild in
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