Ah, the heady days of PVC weaponry on pilot course. My Mk4 could shoot a 40mm potato over 200 meters. Of course, I never thought to build a flamethrower…
I’m doing a bit of work with the Spring framework and running through the excellent tutorial. One problem I had with Tomcat 5.5 and Spring 1.2.3 was the error “Failed to load or instantiate TagLibraryValidator class: org.apache.taglibs.standard.tlv.JstlCoreTLV”. There’s not much on the web about this, but I found a tip at Ryan’s Scraps that helped [...]
You know that TV ad for Suncorp Metway that features George Gregan getting advice on the toss before a match from a Suncorp financial advisor? Basically Georgie goes in for the toss, asks his advisor what to choose, the advisor says “tails” and lo and behold it comes up tails. Georgie is suitably impressed. It [...]
How to make a set of highland bagpipes from PVC pipe for about $5
OK here are the first pics of the renovations. I’ve taken some of Thomas’s room, but I can’t find them so I’ll put them up some other day. Those of you that have visited our place will have noticed, and probably snickered at, the bloody stupid dividing wall in the living room. Its only purpose [...]
The RSS feed should now auto-update whenever I make an edit or a new entry.
Cool – blog.radsy.com now supports RSS 1.0, so you can syndicate the blog content in your favourite aggregator. It should work just by clicking the RSS link in the sidebar if you have an integrated RSS client. If anyone can recommend a good one for Firefox, please let me know. I’ve been trialling Lektora, which [...]
wtf? OK this looks pretty benign, but is a classic example of how rubbish Notes is. I managed to click something by mistake in a calendar entry (I think it was Request Information…) and a new tab opened up. Trying to close the tab gives me this dialog. I can send it, send it or [...]
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