http://kevinfrancis.net/journal the occasional journal of kevin francis Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:55:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I want a 350Z", Sanjev said to me. "Well, I want a Zonda". We were discussing dreams for one reason or another while waiting for the phone-shop dude to finish sticking on a screen protector for me. It took him about fifteen minutes from start to end, which really built ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/06/hes-definitely-not-getting-a-zonda/ If you're experiencing difficulty getting Subclipse working with SVNKit, install the very latest. One of the dependencies pulled in will list an SVNKit beta. Install that one and it'll suddenly show up as a provider. This is true as of Eclipse Ganymede and Subclipse 1.6.2 (installed with CollabNet Desktop). Just thought ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/05/svnkit-subclipse-problems/ I have several domains running Google Apps for Domains. I also have a GMail/Google account. I've always found it odd that I cannot link my kevin@kevinfrancis.net account to my Google account in some way. It's a bit funny to have to keep what appears to be multiple Google accounts sitting around... ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/05/on-google-accounts/ I'm rather insistent about scaling zoom being set by default 120% of my copy of Firefox. I achieve this with the NoSquint plugin add-on. Of late I'd been noticing that Firefox page scrolling was really really really bad. Turns out this is caused by scaling zoom -- turn the default page ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/03/firefox-scaling-zoom-kills-performance/ Finally, Safari has page scaling in the v4 Beta. Sadly though it appears to exhibit strange behaviour with GMail for instance -- When I zoom in, it also scales the width of the entire page, which means I now have to scroll left and right :( Now, whilst this may or ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/02/safari-4-scaling-zoom/ I'd been receiving what seemed like spam from the worlds most intelligent spam bot ever -- I was getting invitations to baby showers, house warmings, company events and meetings. I started to feel like the bot was stalking me, like it was getting in my head. Then someone named Karen Francis ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/02/a-case-of-mistaken-identity-the-use-of-corporate-email-for-personal-messages/ The meme has been going around, and here's my take -- click to embiggen :) Make your band's album cover meme: Go to Wikipedie's special random page. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. Go to Quotations Page's random quotations page. The last four or five words ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/02/make-your-bands-album-cover-meme/ Your Next Favourite Band is a service that ties into your Last.fm profile and attempts to predict what your next favourite band (duh) might be. I've run it a few times and it keeps saying the same thing: Jason Mraz. I really think they need to overhaul their algorithm because ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/02/your-next-favourite-band/ After using Windows 7 for 2 weeks I think I've got a pretty good feel for it. I haven't wavered once in all this time, sticking closely to my goal of using Windows through and through. It was not an ordeal. It was not painful. It is a definite improvement over ... http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/01/overall-impression-of-windows-7/ Found in the comments for the British English Dictionary pack for Firefox 3: "My favourite dictionary. COLOUR COLOUR COLOUR COLOUR COLOUR See? None of those are spelling errors!" -- scmartindale http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/01/internationalisation-and-localisation/