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Shaun Dewberry’s Weblog – 3 Years Old

Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral
Yes indeed, “Shaun Dewberry’s Weblog” in its current format is officially 3 years old today! And to think it all started 3 years ago as a place to publish “The Espoo Diaries” – still one of my best writing series ever, imho.

Of course the site did exist in various incarnations before that, but those seem to have been relegated to the Internet wastelands… 🙁

I guess I’d better prepare a little upgrade at some stage for this maturing little 3 year old.

Technorati Tags: blog, 3, age, Finland, TheEspooDiaries, dewberry, writing

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Computing

Put Jonga Search in Firefox’s Search Bar

Jonga and Firefox

Today I wanted to perform a search on Jonga.co.za, South Africa’s newest search engine. I, however, really did not feel like opening another tab in Firefox and typing out ‘double-you double-you double-you dot jay oh’ etc. etc.. – I was in serious lazy mode, so instead I created a handy Search Engine addition for Firefox’s Search Bar.

And now you can get it too!
Just click “Jonga Search” on this page to install.

Technorati Tags: search, jonga, firefox, engine, plugin

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Computing

MotoRAZR V3 MoBlogging with b2evolution

So the wonderful b2evolution blogging engine comes with a ‘mms.php’ file to allow for parsing of MMS messages sent via mobile phone into blog entries.

It was a little tricky to get going, but with the help of the b2evo HowTo I managed to get it going on my Motorola RAZR V3.

The steps taken were as follows:
Menu -> Message Center -> Message Setup -> MMS Message Setup -> Server Info
From there I created a new Server Info profile with Server Name of

https://dewberry.co.za/mms.php?login=username&pass=password&cat=##

The trickiest part here was getting the right category number to substitute for ##. This required looking in the Admin -> Categories section of b2evolution for a suitable category number which could be used. I selected to use an existing Web Session, in my case MTN-WAP-GPRS (my WAP/GPRS/MMS profile for connecting my phone to the web via GPRS).

From there I simply gave the Service a Name and selected it as the default Service for MMS.

After that I took a quick test photo and sent it to any number in my address book (I chose myself, just in case). The message delivery claims to have failed, but a quick refresh of the browser window, and voila, MoBologging in action!

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Computing

Why “Windows Vista” is a bad name…

I’m not alone in thinking that “Windows Vista” is a really bad name. Apart from the obvious ‘Hasta la Vista’ catch phrase which brings images of the Governor of California single-handedly shooting up Redmond.

Hugh Macleod (I love his little sketches) thinks it is bland.

I did a search for other “Vista’s” on Google. Here’s what I found:

Vista.com – Helping small business do more business.

Vistaprint – Full service graphic design and printing.

MontaVista – Feature rich video phone for the home – runs Montavista Linux. (snigger)

Vista – VISTA is a comprehensive suite of programs and databases for comparative analysis of genomic sequences.

Vista – Software engineering and System Integration.

AltaVista – The search engine.

Vista Software – Vista Software specializes in building high-performance database engines for Windows software developers.

Vista – Vista is a software environment for computer vision research.

Vista Magazine – The Magazine for all Hispanics.

Vista Imaging – Professional Digital Imaging Solutions.

Vista Gold – Vista Gold Corp. evaluates and acquires gold projects with defined gold resources.

Vista Training – VISTA develops training programs for the construction and surface mining industries.

Vista Healthplan – VISTA provides affordable health plans and access to one of Florida’s largest independent physician networks.

Vista Control Systems – Vista Control Systems, reflects the detailed view of your facility provided by our suite of real-time process control software products.

Bloody hell, I’m tired of Googling now.

Nope, Microsoft, you screwed up on this one. Scoble, I agree with your brother.

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Computing

Venting over the scourge of DRM

An article on ITWeb which touched on Digital Rights Management got me going enough to write a nice response.

See my comment here.