Archive for the 'Misc' Category

Using Word 2007 to Post to WordPress

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Word 2007 works well for posting to a WordPress blog. Here is a step-by-step description.

Use any existing document or create a new one. Once you’re done, hit the Office Button -> Publish -> Blog
You’ll be asked to set up a blog account. Select WordPress as the blog provider and enter the URL to xmlrpc.php, your […]

Internet Explorer cuts off the ‘W’ with 11px Arial

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I noticed several times that sometimes Internet Explorer cuts off the left leg of the W. After a little investigation, I found that this happens when a W in 11px Arial touches the left border of a box without left padding or margin. If the box is the first element in another box, and that […]

An exploited web server

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Today, one of our boxes was found to be hacked. It has been mysteriously slow for several days, and looking around a bit, I found the following in nobody’s crontab:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.7742 installed on Thu Jan 5 11:17:06 2006) # (Cron version — $Id: […]

Lifeblog running together with MovableType

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

I got MovableType and Nokia’s Lifeblog running smoothly together.
For that I used Martin’s hack as described in this blog entry.
I found one problem with the setup, but this is due to inconsistencies in the Nokia software: While Lifeblog 1.70.13 on the PC sends the Nonce base64-encoded, the lifeblog phone software on my Nokia 6680 does […]