Forgetful

So, I left my access token thing at work last night by mistake, which renders my laptop basically useless (can’t access anything without it). I went in to work today to get it, and cleverly managed to leave my swipe card at home — so I can’t get in to the building. Takes a special amount of stupid to do all that. :(

In happier news, I’ve found that Dan Murphy’s stocks the St-Germain liqueur I’ve been looking for – at an almost reasonable price! I now have a bottle of the stuff at home. :)

- zac.

June 13, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments

Good News Week

Watching the good news tonight – it would appear that Kelly Clarkson doesn’t quite get how this show works..

- zac.

June 1, 2009 • Posted in: General • One Comment

Another big weekend

- zac.

May 31, 2009 • Posted in: General • 3 Comments

Auckland 09 trip notes

A successful weekend! :)

- zac.

May 25, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments

Chat program updates ahoy!

Brand new beta of Adium, newish beta of aMSN for Mac .. well, February-this-year newish, at least.

Additionally, Safari 4 beta was updated some time recently. Seems a little less memory hungry now + it renders the Acid3 test perfectly (somewhat pointless but it’s cool anyway!)

Speaking of updates – engineer types at work made a pretty major change to one of our largest products over the weekend, which affects all new sales of said product going forward. I’m pleased that the world hasn’t ended!

Yet.

- zac.

May 19, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments

Mail.app and the curious case of vanishing certificates

So, it seems that Mail.app helpfully prevents you from using an expired or otherwise invalid digital certificate (for the purposes of digitally signing and encrypting e-mail). I went to encrypt a mail to my work address and found that the digital signing and encryption options that were previously available had … vanished. No immediately apparent reason, just simply gone.

It turns out I had cleverly ignored an e-mail from the CA I use telling me the certificate was due to expire and I should probably get a new one. :( Ergo – certificate expired, no valid digital signature, no signing or encryption options.

Simple enough, just annoying that the answer wasn’t immediately obvious.

- zac.

May 11, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments

More entertainment from the Internets

Quoting The Register on a current hot topic:

…The principal swine flu vectors are: Airborne contagion, unprotected email and Facebook. Accordingly, issue staff with flimsy paper masks, confine them to their cubicles and ban them from social networking until the World Health Organisation says otherwise…

- zac.

April 28, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments

CSR creation tool for Windows

So, I was looking for a nice way of creating a CSR and private key in Windows for a customer that didn’t involve icky command line stuff or installing more useless server software (read as: IIS) – Googling lead me to My Certificate Wizard, which is a seriously neat little utility for exactly this purpose.

Even nicer – it’s hippy software open source, so it’s completely free (though donations are encouraged). :)

- zac.

April 23, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments

Possibly the best thing I’ve read today..

From Drew’s blog at Toothpaste for Dinner:

In other news, more people read my Twitter than my blog. I know there are some grumblefucks who don’t like Twitter, but it’s the same group of frowners who didn’t like Myspace a couple years ago. Boo hoo, how I hate this new thing that lets people talk to each other online. Life was so much BETTER when there were only TWELVE of us online and IRC WAS JUST FINE THANK YOU. Now if you’ll EXCUSE ME I have a NETSPLIT to ride so I finally get the CHANNEL OPS I DESERVE.

Heh.

- zac.

April 15, 2009 • Posted in: General • 2 Comments

Boxer

I was searching for recommendations on running DOSBox on my Mac, and Google directed me to Boxer instead. And it’s freaking awesome. :D

- zac.

April 12, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments