Last month after fixing a problem in Galleon’s weather application it was pointed out to me that my fix displayed the 100-mile radar map whereas originally Galleon had shown the 600-mile map. Well, I decided to take a crack at coming up with a solution for that as well. This gave me an opportunity to [...]
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Fix for local radar image in Galleon’s weather app
A few weeks ago, the Local Radar screen in Galleon‘s weather application started showing “N/A” instead of the image from weather.com. Galleon has been dormant, development-wise, for a while. It was updated late last year with some bug fixes and HD support by s2kdave and jtkohl, but has lapsed into the realm of unsupported (but [...]
Put a little style in Apache’s directory index
While researching a problem I was having with Apache I came across indices, a “neat set of hacks” that adds some style to Apache’s default generated indexes. Using Scott Evan’s scripts, I was able to change my directory index from this: to this: Much nicer!
Labels in the sidebar
Apparently if you host your Blogger blog on your own server (like I do) instead of Google’s blogspot.com you miss out on some cooler features of the service (like advanced Layouts). Another missing feature is the widget that inserts a list of tags/labels used in posts into the sidebar. Thankfully, I found Antti’s post on [...]
Bullets are back!
I noticed yesterday, after posting my Vista rant, that my bulleted lists didn’t have bullets next to them. Doing some digging in the Thisaway (Blue) template I’m using, I found the following reference: .post li { padding: 0 0 4px 17px; background: url(http://www.blogblog.com/thisaway_blue/ icon_list_item.gif) no-repeat 0 3px; } Putting that URL into my browser, I [...]
