I’m on a mailing list for the Australian Monarchists League. I was surprised to read yesterday that a pizza chain has weighed into the non-existent republican debate. The email is reproduced here: "In today’s newspapers is a report on what could only be termed to be a senseless phone survey conducted by Domino’s Pizza of [...]
Dresden bombing
I’ve received a couple of spam emails in German lately about the Allied bombing of Dresden in early 1945. The emails are sincerely written, state cold facts and don’t moralise except to criticise the subsequent silence of the German government and media. I must say I’ve always been troubled about the bombing of Dresden. I [...]
Mozilla browser
Curiosity got the better of me today and I downloaded the latest version of the Mozilla browser (now known as Sea Monkey). It’s a hefty 11MB, which I scheduled to download at a quiet time of the day on my slow dial-up connection. I’m very happy with Firefox, so this was just an experiment. I’m [...]
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Sometimes I question if I made the right move in switching this blog to WordPress from Pivot. I still use Pivot for some sites and I like the ease with which templates can be customised. WordPress has a similar capability when you get familiar with it. I like the security of having my posts stored [...]
Evolution address book imports
Evolution is my favorite email program and personal information manager in Linux. It looks good and works well. The only drawback I’ve encountered so far is that it doesn’t easily import data from Outlook. I overcame this obstacle by exporting my Outlook contacts to a CSV file. I then imported this file into KDE’s Kontact [...]
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