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I guess I missed out on 2008. Not much to show there..

Here’s another great personal Wiki Pepys Wiki

It’s a little unusual in that it is modeless, i.e. you can use it as a editor without dropping into a Wiki mode and it stores it’s data in XHTML but that might be an advantage for some people. At least the data is in a standard format!

I guess this stuff is all in the manual but this FAQ nicely covers a lot of questions that I have had about the IBM ThinkPad especially how to map a key to be the Windows Key

Sunaga-sensei told me about this a long time ago but I forgot about it. This only works for phones that can play QCP files which includes Au phones in Japan. If your phone can record QCP files it probably means that can play them too. I have only used this method on my Au phone so I can’t help you if you are using another phone network.

1. Download the free PureVoice Converter 3.0 for Windows from Qualcomm.

2. Prepare a WAV file that you want to use.
3. Use the Windows Sound Recorder to resave the WAV file as an 8khz 16bit mono WAV file.
4. Use the PureVoice Converter tool (pvconv.exe) to create a QCP file.
5. Mail the QCP file to your phone. I guess copying it onto a memory card would work too.
6. If you can play the file you can probably use it as a ringtone. My phone will automatically play small files when the arrive but it doesn’t play longer files unless you play them from the data directory.

If the file is too big, it is possible that you may not be able to download and play it. Try with a small file first to prove that it works and then work up to bigger files.

Ideas:

• AudioBlast can make Morse code WAV files. Make one for each person in your address book and learn Morse code so that you can tell who is calling you.

I have been looking for a self contained Wiki that I can put on my Flash Drive and carry around with me. Today I found Mini Ruby Wiki. After I read the source and figured out it wanted a hostname and port numbers as parameters it worked straight away.

Pros:

• It is self contained in one folder.
• It contains it’s own webserver and runs from a folder.

Cons:

• It seems to have a problem, maybe only on Opera, where pages are cached which means you really have to do a refresh after viewing each page to ensure you get the latest edit.
• I’ll have to install Ruby on any machine that I want to use it on.

Kottke predicts “Google will be the biggest and most important company in the world in 5-8 years“. A bold prediction. What impresses me most is that their huge cluster is completely hidden to the world. I bet 90% of users have no idea how Google works and fewer still the challenges that they have already overcome in managing the enormous number of machines behind it.

“NetRadar is a tool for analyzing network topology for congestion problems. It is targeted mainly at networking experts, but can be used by anyone with a network connection.”

Make pretty pictures of your local network.

Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years?

I was looking for a Spam Filtering plugin for my favourite mail client Becky! and came across a Python plugin kit for Becky!. However the Python plugin kit seems to have disapeared off the net. The Ruby plugin kit for Becky! does seem to be supported though.