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What are yous bleedin lookin at?
Monday, December 31, 2012
Are you startin' or wha'?
If you're new in town and you want to have a little look around Skangerland then this is the place to start. A few old favourites:
Now check out a few more pages and we hope you see something you like. You'll find a mixture of the serious and the frivolous, but that's life and we make no apologies for it. Jaysus knows we could all do with a laugh the odd time.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Hide "Who to follow" in new-new twitter using Adblock
Block the "Who to follow" panel in the new new twitter
This works in Firefox, but the principle should be the same for other versions of Adblock.
With twitter open in your browser, click the red Adblock ABP badge and select "Preferences…" (or click "Tools" in the Firefox menubar then select "Add-Ons" and then hit "Preferences" for the Adblock add-on).
With the Adblock Preferences pane open, click "Add filter…" and enter this:
||api.twitter.com/1/users/recommendations.json?*
to create a new entry, which should appear under "My Ad Blocking Rules" once you hit ok and close the preference pane. Reload the twitter page and the "Who to follow" section should be gone.
If you don't use Adblock then do a web search for userChrome.css and use a personalized stylesheet to block the relevant page element.
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Sunday, November 06, 2011
Remove icons from the Firefox bookmarks toolbar
This should work more generally, but (because it's the set-up I have) I refer particularly here to Firefox 7.0.1 running on Mac OS X 10.7.2. [UPDATE: I'm now on Firefox 8.0.1 and this fix is still working fine for me. UPDATE X 2: Firefox 10.0 on 10.7.3 and still okay.] If someone has equivalent instructions for other platforms then please add them in comments.
I wanted to get rid of the icons in the bookmarks toolbar. I find some of them ugly and they take up too much space. I tried the Bookmarks Deiconizer add-on, but found that I had to reset it by disabling and re-enabling it every time I relaunched Firefox. Here's what I did instead.
(1) Find the file called localstore.rdf in
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[your unique user ID string]/
(2) Make a copy of the localstore.rdf file as a backup.
(3) Make sure Firefox is not running.
(4) Open localstore.rdf in a text editor such as TextEdit or TextWrangler.
(5) Find the section that begins:
RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#PersonalToolbar"
at the end of this section an entry reads:
mode="icons"
change this to
mode="text"
(6) Save the edited version of localstore.rdf to the folder in your Library.
(7) Restart Firefox. Your bookmarks toolbar should be icon-free. If you have any problems then quit Firefox and dump the edited localstore.rdf and replace it with the original version that you backed up.
I wanted to get rid of the icons in the bookmarks toolbar. I find some of them ugly and they take up too much space. I tried the Bookmarks Deiconizer add-on, but found that I had to reset it by disabling and re-enabling it every time I relaunched Firefox. Here's what I did instead.
(1) Find the file called localstore.rdf in
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[your unique user ID string]/
Your Library folder should be inside your Home folder. To see the Home folder in Finder click Go at the top of the screen and then select Home from the dropdown list. Lion hides the Library folder by default so if you can't see it in the Home folder then you need to go directly to it. To do that, click Go again but this time select Go to folder… from the dropdown list. This asks you to enter the folder you want. Enter
~/Library/
then click the Go button. That should bring you to your Library folder and let you follow the path above to find your localstore.rdf file.
~/Library/
then click the Go button. That should bring you to your Library folder and let you follow the path above to find your localstore.rdf file.
(2) Make a copy of the localstore.rdf file as a backup.
(3) Make sure Firefox is not running.
(4) Open localstore.rdf in a text editor such as TextEdit or TextWrangler.
(5) Find the section that begins:
RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#PersonalToolbar"
at the end of this section an entry reads:
mode="icons"
change this to
mode="text"
(6) Save the edited version of localstore.rdf to the folder in your Library.
(7) Restart Firefox. Your bookmarks toolbar should be icon-free. If you have any problems then quit Firefox and dump the edited localstore.rdf and replace it with the original version that you backed up.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
How to get iCal with iCloud working in Snow Leopard 10.6 [Ux2]
THE SHORT VERSION:
- Get your AppleID email address and password, and your iCloud CalDav server address (instructions for finding it are below)
- In iCal on Snow Leopard 10.6 click:
- iCal
- Preferences…
- Accounts
- +
- Select CalDav as Account type
- Enter the following:
- User name = your AppleID email address
- Password = your AppleID password
- Server address = your CalDav server name
- Click create
What is my CalDav server name?
Mine is p06-caldav.icloud.com, but I have seen others using p04-caldav.icloud.com or p02-caldav.icloud.com, so experiment with different numbers.
If you have iCloud running on a Lion 10.7 Mac then you can get your server name by following the instructions at the foot of this entry (in UPDATE: How to find your CalDav server name on a Lion 10.7 Mac).
DETAILS:
On the 10.7 Mac I still have iSync. I kept it so that I can sync with an old mobile phone. With iCloud set up for iCal 5.0.1 on the 10.7 Mac, I opened iSync and looked at the calendars listed under the device (my old mobile phone). The list allows you to select which calendars you want to sync to the device, listing each one. In my case, each calendar entry on that list now takes the form:
{Calendar Name}[{AppleID email address}@{iCloud CalDav server name}]
My {iCloud CalDav server name} is {p06-caldav.icloud.com}
but your mileage may vary for that one. I have seen reports of users having a different number, so the address
is the same except for p02 or p04 and so on instead of p06. (Omit the curly brackets when
you're actually entering these things.)
I made a note of the part in square brackets above and then switched to the 10.6 Mac, where I opened iCal 4.0.4. There I selected iCal then Preferences… and hit the Accounts tab. I clicked + to create a new account and selected CalDav as Account type. Then I entered the following:
User name: {AppleID email address}
Password: AppleID password
Server address: {iCloud CalDav server name}
Next I clicked create. The account loaded all my iCloud calendars into the sidebar in iCal 4.0.4, listed under the heading of my AppleID email address.
I'm not sure how this could be done without iSync on the 10.7 machine, but I'm sure that a copy iSync can be found somewhere by those who really want it. I'll leave that up to you.
I have tested push syncing from 10.6 to 10.7 and vice versa and both work fine.
If you have iCloud running on a Lion 10.7 Mac then you can get your server name by following the instructions at the foot of this entry (in UPDATE: How to find your CalDav server name on a Lion 10.7 Mac).
DETAILS:
On the 10.7 Mac I still have iSync. I kept it so that I can sync with an old mobile phone. With iCloud set up for iCal 5.0.1 on the 10.7 Mac, I opened iSync and looked at the calendars listed under the device (my old mobile phone). The list allows you to select which calendars you want to sync to the device, listing each one. In my case, each calendar entry on that list now takes the form:
{Calendar Name}[{AppleID email address}@{iCloud CalDav server name}]
I made a note of the part in square brackets above and then switched to the 10.6 Mac, where I opened iCal 4.0.4. There I selected iCal then Preferences… and hit the Accounts tab. I clicked + to create a new account and selected CalDav as Account type. Then I entered the following:
Password: AppleID password
Server address: {iCloud CalDav server name}
Next I clicked create. The account loaded all my iCloud calendars into the sidebar in iCal 4.0.4, listed under the heading of my AppleID email address.
I'm not sure how this could be done without iSync on the 10.7 machine, but I'm sure that a copy iSync can be found somewhere by those who really want it. I'll leave that up to you.
I have tested push syncing from 10.6 to 10.7 and vice versa and both work fine.
UPDATE: How to find your CalDav server name on a Lion 10.7 Mac
If you don't have iSync then it may be possible to get the server address from one of the info.plist files in the Calendars folder inside your Library in Lion. (If you can't see that folder in Finder click Go and then select Go To Folder… Then enter
~/Library/
and hit Go.) In that Library folder look in Calendars and then check the folder that ends .caldav - on my 10.7 Mac there's an info.plist file in there that mentions the correct server for me.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Tour de France Calendar 2012 ics calendar #tdf #tdf2012
As usual, you use and take and on an as-is basis, no warranty, etc. If you want to check it's legit then open it up in any text-editor and you can inspect the code. It's as accurate as we can make it (we'll be using these calendars ourselves) but we can't guarantee that it is error-free. If you spot any mistakes then do please let us know through the comments.
This release is a very early one, and derives from the route found by VeloPeloton (also visible here). Take it with an extra pinch of salt.
We'll update when we have more detail. In the meantime, enjoy.
Download: Tour de France 2012 Calendar v1
Subscribe:
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XML
HTML
This release is a very early one, and derives from the route found by VeloPeloton (also visible here). Take it with an extra pinch of salt.
We'll update when we have more detail. In the meantime, enjoy.
Download: Tour de France 2012 Calendar v1
Subscribe:
ICS
XML
HTML
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tour de France 2011 ics calendar #tdf #tdf2011 [1]
UPDATE: For the 2012 version check here.
As usual, you use and take and on an as-is basis, no warranty, etc. If you want to check it's legit then open it up in any text-editor and you can inspect the code. It's as accurate as we can make it (we'll be using these calendars ourselves) but we can't guarantee that it is error-free. If you spot any mistakes then do please let us know through the comments.
Download: Tour de France 2011 Calendar v1
Subscribe:
ICS
XML
HTML
As usual, you use and take and on an as-is basis, no warranty, etc. If you want to check it's legit then open it up in any text-editor and you can inspect the code. It's as accurate as we can make it (we'll be using these calendars ourselves) but we can't guarantee that it is error-free. If you spot any mistakes then do please let us know through the comments.
Download: Tour de France 2011 Calendar v1
Subscribe:
ICS
XML
HTML
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Mary Lou TD
Just saying...
http://skangerland.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-did-christy-burke-resign-from.html
http://skangerland.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-did-christy-burke-resign-from.html
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
They were warned
The government were warned by the ESRI in March 2000 that they needed an orderly calming of the Irish economy, not the bonfire of over-exuberance stoked by tax incentives that they actually gave us.
Bertie Ahern, Mary Harney, Charlie McCreevy - they all line up to poo-poo the very notion of restraint.
Bertie Ahern, Mary Harney, Charlie McCreevy - they all line up to poo-poo the very notion of restraint.
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The last gamble
Google Streetview caught the two Brians' last gamble with the Irish economy.
It didn't work out - Cowen spent the last few cent on a donut.
It didn't work out - Cowen spent the last few cent on a donut.
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Brian Lenihan,
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