After much fussing around I’ve finally got the 3d barcode reader on my phone to work. Horray for the technology of the future!
Archive for March, 2008
3D barcodes – the way of the future?
Monday, March 17th, 200830 million fine for illegal hamster possession
Saturday, March 15th, 2008On a slightly different note I’ve just read that the Vietnamese authorities have announced a ban on Hamsters. Anyone caught in possession of a hamster will now face a 30 Million Dong fine, around £940.
Hamsters have recently become popular in Vietnam due to a combination of factors including rising incomes and the Chinese year of the Rat. Illegal hamsters have been flooding into Vietnam from nearby China and the government is worried that many of them may harbour Rabies.
30 Million Dong is roughly double the average Vietnamese annual income.
SFTP Drive – mapping a remote drive to a drive letter over SFTP
Thursday, March 13th, 2008I’ve just bought a licence key for SFTP Drive. This remarkably lovely bit of stuff lets me map remote drives on my server to a local drive letter. It just show up as a drive and I can open and edit files as though they were on my local machine, no more drag and drop or monkeying around with vi, not that I have anything agains vi.
Download SFTP Drive from here. You get a six week free trial and the licence is $40, around £20.
Ajax loading spinners
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Again, a big big thank you to the people at AjaxLoad.info for the ajax loading graphic generator. I remember the first time I built one of these it took me almost a day of hacking the Gimp. Now I can make a really nice one in around 20 seconds.