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Herb Albert – Spanish Flea
This song has been going around like the flu in the office the last couple of months. Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass… Here’s what has to be the funniest interpretation ever of it:
Linkdumping
Here are parts of todays finds, jotted down for later reference: GZIP compression, HTTP Caching, the Pareto principle (plus the wikipedia equivalent), passing elements to event handlers with jQuery, CSS Compress for WordPress, This day in type, Pingdom, We love TXP, Jon Hicks’ google reader theme, lovely inspiring typography works by Craig Ward… … and [...]
How to force UTF-8 encoding in mail.app
Just open up the terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset “UTF-8″ It was that easy. Not everyone has to do that I guess, but if you, like me, have had a problem with Outlook users asking you why you’re writing to them in Chinese, this might help get them off your back
Howto kill lookupd after editing the hosts file on OS X
After editing the hosts file (mate /etc/hosts), instead of restarting the computer or logging out, this line will restart lookupd: sudo kill -HUP `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`
Using the terminal with MAMP on OS X
Recently I was going to take the promising Symfony PHP framework out for a quick test drive, but ran into trouble in the very beginning of the tutorial. I’m running MAMP for local PHP development, but the terminal is using the built-in PHP version for its command line scripting. And Symfony is all about generating [...]
9 rules and domain name renewals
wow, I must have typed the adress at least thrice before realizing it wasn’t a typo from my side. Must be quite an awkward feeling for those involved… Quite a terrible slip for a company these days.
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