Posts under ‘Geeky’

I don’t know if you noticed but I have a new search widget since a few days ago. This is provided by Lijit and I love them already. Go and look to see what they provide but in the meantime I just wanted to say they have a great idea. I wanted to change some [...]

When I rebadged this blog the other day I changed the subheading to “musings of a fiftysomething bilingual geek” While the term geek might be understandable in english I am attempting to describe it in French.
Le plupart de mes lecteurs francophones ont des connaissances assez avancés d’anglais mais s’exprime peu ou pas en anglais. Le [...]

It’s the second time it’s happened to me. I blogged a pic from within flickr. All seemed to go well but once it was in place the thumbnail doesn’t show.
That’s why I am going to upload it myself and relink. I wonder if I’m doing something wrong? Just to check I’ve checked on IE7 and [...]

I don’t know about you but searching is sometimes a very frustrating experience for me. The more the search can concern commercial products the more difficult it is to find what you were looking for.
The case in point today is that at work I use a Fujitsu-Seimens Lifebook and using it for long periods of [...]

I discovered Swivel this morning. This is another site where I could spend a lot of time punching in data and churning out graphs.
This is a test of embedding an available graph here on the blog.

After my last Pownce invite extravaganza I have once again some invites to hand out. Just leave a comment with your email address.

I have very thoughtful and attentive friends out there and I wanted to thank you for your well wishes and also to say that thanks to you my blog reached a milestone today. 1000 comments! You are fantastic and even if I don’t update sometimes you can be sure that it will only be a [...]

Long term visitors might have noticed that I’ve been Twittering on and off since the beginning of the year.
I haven’t done so since March but as I have to "repair" the sidebar I thought I would put it back.
I’m still struggling to understand the usefulness. Can you help me out here? Are you a twitter [...]

I’m testing a different writing client this morning. Usually I just use WordPress itself or Windows Live Writer but when I tried to install the Beta 2 of WLW earlier it complained that my Windows wasn’t recent enough (my work system doesn’t have SP2 yet…)
So this is a test of sorts. So what’s new today [...]