funwithstuff

Check out Short Circuit, a cute Flash game with a simple premise and some addictive Daft Punk.

I don't know who Demetrius Romeo is, but an interesting blog he has: Stand and Deliver!

Wa-hey! Check out the Airport page on Dabble. Thanks go to: Joel, bjtitus, falk, mary and paul. Insert smiley face here.

Oh man. Very, very funny. Dirty, though. Just when you think it's all about the dance moves... DevilDucky - Dance, Voldo, Dance.

Memories. So many memories of System 7.

I thought something like the Internet Anagram Server must exist. And lo!

Use during Scrabble would be frowned upon.

Some time ago, I wrote about a Table Transpose script I wrote for InDesign. Swaps rows and columns. I mentioned I was going to upload it to the Adobe site, but that never happened. So, trying to upload it today; the Adobe site fell over at the final hurdle. Here's what you should have been able to read:

Table Transpose v1
by Iain Anderson

Description:
Transposes tables, swapping rows and columns.

Switches rows and columns around in a table. As well as table content, this script swaps backgrounds with tints and basic text styles. It doesn't deal with border styles, and if you've merged cells... best of luck.

Instructions:
Select the text frame containing the table to be transposed, then run the script. The script turns rows into columns and vice-versa, swapping row and column content, text styles and cell backgrounds. Use on backup copies. No responsibility taken for damage caused.

License Type: Freeware

And here it is: Table Transpose v1. Pop it in your InDesign/Presets/Scripts folder. [EDIT: Link updated. Works on Mac and PC InDesign CS2/3 and maybe CS1, though I can't test that.]

Worth a read, more often than not: New World Notes. Right now, the virtual world's perspective on the latest catastrophe to hit the middle east.

I like Scrabble. Recently rediscovered. Of course, I like it at the moment because I just had my best game ever. Hardly tournament rules, though: an open-ish dictionary, no time limits, separated vowels and consonants for drawing (to avoid racks from hell) and blank tile recycling conspire to produce high scores.

Still, I'm happy with 426, especially with the "samosas" I drew first go, and the "scoring" on a triple word score, bordering with "quoin" to make "quoins". How much of a nerd does that make me?

The fact that I just blogged it makes me a bigger nerd.

Time to get all meta. This blog, funwithstuff, and all the other little subsites like Twelve Fives, byscooter and secondlife are all now happily archived by the Australian National Library at this address. Or they will be, once this post is spidered. Hmm.

Maybe I'll change the links in the template instead.

FTP is a strange beast. For a protocol that predates the web's http, it's amazing how often today it doesn't work. I use Panic's Transmit most often, and Panic do good work.

Sometimes though, Transmit fails, for no good reason. When it does, I usually revert back to the command line ftp program in the Terminal. It's archaic, but I learnt to use it at university many moons ago and I'm glad to have the option.

If that fails too, I smell a rat. This protocol should have been perfected by now, and somehow someone's either sent me the wrong login details or is using a non-standard server. It's happened twice now.

So, the workaround: use the Finder. It's basic, but it connected without any problems, instead of weird error messages. Remember the Finder next time ftp falls over.

Let's feed Google.

Setting up MySQL + phpMyAdmin + a CMS on Mac OS X 10.4.4 and up? #2002 error? Ah...

MySQL AB :: MySQL Forums :: Database Administration :: Re: #2002 - The server is not responding

"Re: #2002 - The server is not responding

Posted by: Geoff Ellis (IP Logged)
Date: March 08, 2006 05:27AM

To the people on Mac OS X 10.4.4 and up

During the 10.4.4 OS update, Apple have changed where PHP looks for the MySQL socket file.

You can correct this by:

$ sudo mkdir /var/mysql
$ sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Good Luck
Geoff"

Go Geoff!

Hey! Synchronicity! Just talking about voice changing software, and it gets released. Story at Eurogamer. Changes gender, age, etc., seems to do an OK job. Hmmmmm.

So I've finally reworked my mother's website: Rian Anderson | The Odd Ball Knit Book, mostly about the book I designed for her last year. (Online ordering coming soon!) Take a peek, tell me if it's broken in IE6 (it really shouldn't be, but I haven't yet made it to a PC to test it on) and vote on what the background image should be, rather than the flat dark grey I stuck in during development and haven't shifted yet. Probably subtly wooly.

Oh, and by "vote" I mean... leave comments here.