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Archive for December 2011

Migration from GoDaddy

No doubt anybody with a domain name online has heard of the infamous GoDaddy. Whilst I’ve been dutifully spending time away from the computer this holiday, I’ve kept a close eye on the SOPA act as well as registrars’ reactions towards it. GoDaddy already has horrible customer service, horrible products, horrible interface, horrible advertising … [...]

The aftermath of Failnation.com

A while back I sold Failnation.com to the Cheezburger Inc Network of sites. I recently checked it and found it had been rerouted to a subsection of FAILBlog – currently housing “classic” fails. An appropriate new function, I think. The humour isn’t quite my cup of tea, but this is the Internet, after all.

Hello, Shanghai! Happy holidays, everyone!

As you might’ve guessed from the title of this post, I am now in Shanghai and I have been for almost a month now. Apart from socialising with relatives, most of my time is spent on my job, with the free time I have soaked up by learning how to speak Mandarin. This has effectively [...]

Tech Tip #10: merge PDFs into 2 per page, 3 per page, etc (n per page)

This post is mostly just a reminder to myself, but it may be useful to others. I was recently asked to convert a .ppt, or Powerpoint slideshow document, into a three slides per page, horizontally centered, one on top of another, with frames around each slide. Powerpoint itself offers several printing options, including a 2n [...]

Any FOSS-related events I should check out whilst I’m in Shanghai?