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This is water
This speech by David Foster Wallace is taken from the web archives. Continuing the eBooks saga… Amazon want to charge you $9.99 for the Kindle version when its available for free. I’m republishing it here because I don’t understand why its buried, and the original post was taken down (I hear the patter of a…
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2 Hardcovers for 1 Kindle edition
As part of the on-going saga of eBooks, here’s yet another quite stark example. 37signals.com are a cool company, they wrote Ruby on Rails which is a simply stunning piece of software to have produced. They have a book REWORK, which when you read the sample looks excellent, anything which sets out so neatly why…
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The proper price of an eBook
£ eBook = £ (book – printing) / (eBook sales / book sales) I have major issues with the way Amazon prices eBooks. They are consistently (I’ll need some proof of that…) within 10% of the price of a paperback. That’s a farce. Here is one perfectly good example of a more sensible pricing structure,…
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May the farce of eBooks be with you
Its May the 4th. Star Wars day and more importantly its the International Day Against DRM. Buying eBooks currently is a farce. Here’s my experience. I love the Big Issue that’s sold in the UK, its fantastic in the service it provides, the magazine it produces and the cracks in the society that it fills.…
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vim commands for the Windows user
This is a cheat sheet for Windows keyboard junkies who feel as out of place in vi as I do. I got most of the vim commands from the rather useful IBM vi tutorial. dd was the only one I ever learnt (and I didn’t know that I could paste after deleting it). There’s loads…
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Install GMP on Ubuntu
If you’re trying to install the Open ID PHP library the first thing you hit is: 1. Install dependencies. – Enable either the GMP extension or Bcmath extension. (GMP is STRONGLY recommended because it’s MUCH faster!) This is required. All my attempts to find how to install GMP on Ubuntu led me to long pages…
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Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience
If you get the error “Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” from IE8 (Internet Explorer 8), there’s a chance it is a problem with jQuery specifically a bug with jQuery v1.6.2. The solution is to upgrade to the latest version of jQuery. I found the problem…
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Fixing the broken Chromium Snapshot Monitor
After you’ve installed the Chromium browser, there’s a nice Chromium Snapshot Monitor extension that allows you to check the continuous and snapshot repositories for new versions. However its broken and it hasn’t had any changes for over a year. Its only broken because the URLs it checks have changed as pointed out on this page (http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/README.txt…
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Chromium Browser Download for Windows
Update: finally over 2 years after I wrote this, there is a better way of doing this. Use the Chocolatey Chromium package. The folks at Chromium make it unnecessarily hard to install the Chromium browser. This post from ghacks.net does a good job of explaining the basics. Here’s what I’ve done to install it for Windows.…
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Ian Channing 