20110708 Unicode emoticons with GNOME’s Character Map

GNOME’s Character Map, also known as Gucharmap, comes by default with Ubuntu and any other distribution that uses GNOME. And dull and functional as it is, it can also be the source of much enjoyment! The trick is easy: just go browsing around the Unicode blocks until you find something you fancy, and double click [...]

20101007 ie6 for Android

Mr.doob just managed to pull the leg of half the Internet population today (OK, maybe I’m exaggerating, let’s leave it in half the Twitterverse) with his ie6 effect for Chrome and Firefox. I thought it would do us all good to have a native Android application, so that we could also emulate the Internet Explorer [...]

20100711 2012 (Eclipse Helios remix)

That said, it happened after a system crash, so Eclipse hadn’t been shut properly. And after killing Eclipse (because it wouldn’t stop popping up error windows) and reopening it again, it seems the evil goblin of mass destruction and agony had gone away. Thankfully an outline wasn’t available!

20100401 Scons-fusion

– So have you heard about Scons? – Oh yeah, it’s that food thingie, isn’t it? – Food thingie? What food thingie? – Yeah! Like this? – Oh nooo, those are scones! I meant the Python thingie! – Aaah, I see!

20090323 Don’t

click this Will you resist?