David Fraser

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Photo Album 2007-06 Discovering Nagoya

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Photo Album 2007-06 Meeting Church Family

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Photo Album 2007-06 Staying with the Inoues

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Photo Album 2007-06 Flat in Tsurumai

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Photo Album 2007-05 Flying to Japan

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Photo Album 2007-05 Joburg Stopover

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Photo Album 2007-05 Leaving Cape Town

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Plugging Skype and Pidgin together

After thinking about de-nuctifying the world I've started to investigate creating a Pidgin (formerly Gaim) plugin to control Skype. This means you're still using a closed network, but from an open program, which makes migrating easier (and allows people to try multiple networks from the same

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PyToddler - just right

I found PyToddler recently and had James having lots of fun moving crayons round the screen and trying to make a mouse eat some cheese and say "Yum yum yum yum yum" - great watching him say "Go over there mouse!" and trying to encourage him

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De-nuct-ifying the world

I've had a strange experience over the past year, and it's getting more common. As a developer, I used to be the one recommending software/tech things to my friends. Now all my non-technical friends have started recommending things to me that they have discovered on

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Weekend away in Betty's Bay

We went away for the weekend with Ulrik and Andrea and stayed in Betty's Bay. Seems a bit crazy with only 11 days to go now before we leave and much to do - but it was actually brilliant to just have relaxed time with friends and I

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Photo Album 2007-05 Family

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Getting visas for Japan

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Caolan McNamara vs the Sun Global Special Store

Eike Rathke points out the new Sun Weblog Publisher you can buy for $9.95 for blogging from within OpenOffice.org Writer (or StarOffice, not that I know anyone who has that :-)). Sounds remarkably familiar. I wonder if Caolan has thought of trying to sell oooblogger...

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Finding projects using Pootle with Google code search

Well seeing as Google has release a Code Search on open source code, I thought I would put it to good use: searching for pootle in filenames ending with .po helps you to quickly find some projects that are using Pootle to edit their PO files, and you can even

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Photo Album 2006-08 Charis Birth

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Photo Album 2006-09 Nature

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Nursery with animals

Went to a local nursery today with James where they have pigs, ducks, rabbits, you name it. Some of the ducks are really ugly! It was lots of fun wandering around ... Have uploaded some photos which you can see in the image galleries ...

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Photo Album 2006-08 Family

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Setting up Drupal

Have been setting up Drupal for this new site (frasergo.org) Works reasonably nicely, just such a shame it's written in PHP :-)

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Photo Album 2006-08 Baby Shower

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Pootle and Translate Toolkit Development 2006-06-13

There's been lots of discussion recently about Pootle on the debian lists, the direction it should take, whether to use a database to store translations, etc... It may be a nice idea to add a database as one of the backend options but keeping with handling the complexity

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Stardust Nasty Macro Application for OpenOffice.org

Slashdot reported Kaspersky labs discovering the Stardust "nasty macro application" for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org This is not really a virus, it is a nasty macro application. If you are foolish enough to agree to run it without checking what it does, you will suffer the consequences... Not many

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Data Entry in OpenOffice.org Calc

Pierre-André Galmes has a great tip on typing data in OpenOffice.org calc. Basically select an area and use tab to switch between cells. The only problem - I can't see how to get it to work nicely with the AutoComplete that happens when you start typing the

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Forwarding a wireless network connection from Windows

Trying to proxy network traffic through my wireless network on my laptop which is unfortunately running Windows... (oh, the irony)... these are handy hinters: First, use ssh -D to create a SOCKS proxy. That's fairly easy. Use tsocks to make any application use the proxy. (Or, try and