Backblaze is a backup service I’ve been using since the start of 2009, and I’ve been very pleased with them, although, thankfully, I haven’t had to make great use of their restoration.
In June they’re having Backup Awareness Month. If you follow the link I’ve supplied here, you will be eligible for winning an iPad, and if you tell that I sent you, so will I.
Backup is important, because hard-drives fail. That’s a fact of life, and using an offsite backup service like Backblaze means that even if something awful were to happen to the place you live, at least your data will be safe.
Laura Franz has started a project to make great web font pairings.
Google’s offering of embedding open source fonts, without hosting them yourself.
Never Mrgan of Panic fame is tracking exciting HTML5 creations.
Mark Pilgrim’s comprehensive list of JavaScript methods of detecting which HTML5 features browsers support.
A little while ago, my iPhone stopped responding to headset clicks, and the microphone stopped working. At first, I figured it was due to the headphones themselves — Apple have quite a rep for producing shitty headphones. So I bought some new ones, but these didn’t work either.
I tested with another iPhone, and they worked there, so I decided to take the phone to the shop to have it fixed. Just before I did, I decided to do a quick web search, just in case something turned up. And, lo and behold, something did turn up. As it turns out, the headphone jack apparently has a habit of collecting dust and dirt, and once they get to a substantial amount, some functions stop working.
The fix: turn off the phone, take a paperclip or other thin object, and clean it. This should do the trick.
Clever. Give it an arbitrary width and height, and it will make a neutral GIF in the specified size.
This is the error message Safari will show you if you try to open a file://-uri in it. Interestingly, it does nothing to check whether that file exists. (Because the one I tried with didn’t.)
So, I got laid off from Print2People. They found it difficult to work with me, with my being in Odense and their being in Køge. No hard feelings they ensured me, but they just didn’t think it worked out.
And thus I’m looking for a new job. If you have any freelance work, preferably in web development or relevant to a student of English, feel free to drop me a line at jonathan at holst.biz. I have a resume if you don’t know much about my skills.
I’m available for about 10 hours a week, with my being a full-time student. For limited periods of time, more hours will likely be possible – drop me a line, and we’ll discuss it.
Matt Haughey has Marimba as his wake-up tune. I personally have a shortened version of ‘Good Morning’ from Singin’ in the Rain. Which is also a quite nice way to start the day.
