15 Jul 2008

Quick regular expression snippet to convert HTML links to Markdown links:

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HTML links to Markdown

13 Jul 2008

Yes, I actually lined up yesterday at 7.30am in front of the O2 store on Western Road.

Yes, after enduring my current hacked iPhone for close to a year at GPRS speeds, I was craving the promised 3G broadband speeds. The built-in GPS wouldn't hurt either.

Yes, I had no clue that I was setting myself up for a tremendous disappointment.

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iPhoned: a story of shiny new gadgets and lousy customer service

12 Jul 2008

Update: Just as I was writing/releasing my patch, Matt Brown apparently committed r38 (diff) to the Google App Engine Helper for Django source tree which resolves the same issue -- and much more simply and elegantly than my solution, by using Django's own settings file. Use Matt's solution instead of my patch.

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New runserver options for manage.py in Google App Engine Helper for Django

12 Jul 2008

Photoshopped Missiles

Clicking on a link from Jens on Twitter, I found myself reading a news report about how Iran fired some missiles and then doctored the images.

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Iran’s Photoshopped missiles

11 Jul 2008

O2 Menu

I just got a 3G iPhone and signed in to the O2 website to take a peek at my account, only to be greeted by the menu you see here.

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How not to design a menu