Jon Rogers

With sixth form on a taster day at Keele Uni Computing – programming robots

Sun and sports day – this term is ending nicely now!

Just 2 ways to use su.pr with your WordPress blog – my addon for Twitter Tools http://su.pr/6hpjxL and the official plugin. Mine was first!

I managed to get an invitation to the new Stumble Upon beta URL shortening service, su.pr via @tferriss. It is basically like bit.ly or is.gd but with the added bonus of giving data on clicks advice on posting. So I want to integrate it with the blog posting system I have here with WordPress and Twitter Tools. Thankfully, it uses a very similar API call to the bit.ly service that has already been integrated into Twitter Tools, so I’ve modified the script and I’m putting it on here. I’m still testing, see this as very much alpha software, but it may help you!

Read the info page or download it now.

Buzz Aldrin, Moon Walker, Rocket Hero, Hip Hop Legend? He got serious space flow! http://is.gd/1jlIi

Liking the look of the new @HTC Android handset – http://is.gd/1c7op – it even has a real headphone jack!

I’ve had a nagging problem with opening my home folder from the launcher/dock that I use in Ubuntu 9.04 (“Jaunty”), gnome-do. It’s an awesome program that I really miss when I’m on windows at school, it gives so much power and so many shortcuts so easily.

Anyway, there’s this silly bug with it on Jaunty where if gnome-do runs at start up, it’s unable to open a file browser window. (the application is called nautilus, but you either already know that or you don’t need to) My understanding is that the problem is with the order things start in, but the good thing is that there’s a dead easy fix for the problem.

First up,you need to edit the shortcut file that opens your home folder:
gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop

Go to line 6, and add a space and a period to the line, so it changes from:
Exec=nautilus --no-desktop

to:
Exec=nautilus --no-desktop .
(notice that tiny little dot at the end that makes all the difference!) Close it and save the file.

Hopefully this change will be done for October and the Karmic Koala, but for now my two installs will run happier and smoother with just one little dot as a difference!

(via https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/387723)

Preparing for a talk at church on Sunday – “Challenging false truths” from a passage on false prophets in Jeremiah. Ouch!

NUT and other Tamworth schools campaigners rally outside Staffordshire CC meeting – I got to play a drum with the Samba band!

http://pic.gd/cd0d9d

BBQ fajitas. nom nom