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Google Liquid Galaxy

Google’s Liquid Galaxy is a series of eight LCD panels surrounding the viewer in a wraparound view of Google Earth. You can get really motion sick flying around the globe but it is very cool.

Using MySQL with Aptana

Aptana 2.0 no longer ships with Aptana PHP or the Database tools included by default. You need to install the PDT plugin for PHP development, and the Quantum Database plugin for managing database connections.
To install the Quantum Database Utilities, in Aptana open Help > Install Additional Features. Under Featured Plugins, select Quantum Database Utility and [...]

Remote Control your PC with your iPhone

Have you ever wanted to be able to control your computer using your iPhone? Here are three methods to allow you to control your computer remotely.
LogMeIn
TechnologyEvangelist describes how to configure LogMeIn to allow you to control your PC with your iPhone. Essentially you change the LogMeIn Remote Control preferences to use HTML instead of ActiveX. [...]

Happy New Year

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. We counted down to the new year in Pub Cardinal Akasaka after an all-you-can eat Shabu-shabu just down the road. Karaoke until 5am made it a very enjoyable night, although we’d all lost our voices the next day for some reason.

Happy Christmas from Taiwan

I took a few days off work and we went to Taiwan for Christmas. It was great, even though it was unusually cold and wet.
The guided tour the first day brought us up one of the many mountains, then after lunch, where we unfortunately didn’t get to try the Ma Poo, we were just [...]

Ise Jingu

Halloween

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Ireland 2008

How to fix txtsetup.sif is corrupt

The other day I was trying to get an unattended Windows XP CD to work in a virtual machine, but by mistake I ran it on my physical PC instead, doh! I thought I canceled it in time, before it had a chance to do any damage to my Windows installation, and I was able [...]

Check out this MASSIVE Printer

I love how they made it look just like a normal desktop printer, just really really big.

Imagine trying to buy new ink cartridges for this thing.