Archive: February 2012

21 posts

Foto Feb: day 8

by kai on 09/02/2012

"Man Bites Dog" - a card game about news headlines. A belated photo (I just forgot to upload it yesterday, sorry) of a belated "Secret Santa" present (I joined my client's office Secret Santa, left my present for person X there before Xmas; but I wasn't around when the presents got distributed). Thx unknown giver - looks like a lot of fun!

Man Bites Dog

Foto Feb: day 7

by kai on 08/02/2012

Not much to say really - a bunch of "Nimm 2" lollies (one grows up with those in Germany) that someone among the people working at my client here brought from a recent trip home from Thailand.

Nimm 2


Also, it shall be noted that @ilaeria dared to not like them and claimed instead that the Orange flavour with "gooey" Caramel wasn't going well together. Sigh. Sigh. Siiiiiiiiiiiigh! :)

Foto Feb: day 6

by kai on 06/02/2012

Just saw this from my balcony. Fireworks. On a Monday. Maybe at Seaworld?

Fireworks (at Seaworld?)

Special characters in Hg Commit comments

by kai on 06/02/2012

This was weird. The other day I was trying to commit something into an Hg repository. Not a new one, not a new setup - I had done thousands of successful commits into this repository in the past. The result of my commit was weird though: Error: transaction abort! rollback completed abort: decoding near 'ailbox, we're not': 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 24: ordinal not in…

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Foto Feb: day 5

by kai on 06/02/2012

A tiny rainbow on the treadmill I used this morning.

A tiny rainbow

Adobe Connect and HTTP status codes

by kai on 05/02/2012

One thing that annoys me quite a bit is how Adobe Connect handles HTTP status codes. Essentially it's doing it in the wrong way (from my point of view at least), but let me explain. You might just know Adobe Connect from using Adobe's hosted SaaS, but Adobe sells Adobe Connect as a so called licensed version - you buy licenses and can host it yourself within the IT structure of your organisation.…

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Foto Feb: day 4

by kai on 04/02/2012

This is prob. the most stereotypical Gold Coast photo you could get: tall apartment building, some tropical palm trees and blue sky :)

Clearly at the Gold Coast

Foto Feb: day 3

by kai on 03/02/2012

This is technically cheating because it's from the 29th of Jan - but it's so nice that I want to show it.

I saw this from my balcony during the Chinese New Year 2012 Parade in Sydney - massively huge Dragon animation projected onto the side of a very tall building.

Chinese New Year 2012 in Sydney

Foto Feb: day 2

by kai on 02/02/2012

Cutie...

This is quite possibly the cutest and most friendly dog I've come across for a long time. 9 months old female Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy and the dog-in-residence at Sydney-based client.

Moving the Adobe Connect content storage

by kai on 02/02/2012

You've installed a licensed (=self-hosted) version of Adobe Connect 7 or 8 and all of a sudden you have realised that you really need to move the content storage to a different area of the server because your C: drive is running out of space? A few weeks ago a client asked me how to do exactly this. Given how easy it is, it's surprisingly badly documented and hard to find. Here you go: Stop the…

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