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Sol-Gerakina just turned two years old. She’s already passionate about her art, and is actually occupied several minutes when given paper and crayons.
Until now she’s been using blank paper, but we thought it was about time to give her a coloring book, so we mentioned it as something she wanted for her birthday.

Aunty to the rescue; I give you the the Gangsta Rap Coloring Book.

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover…well, let’s make an exception.

(More photos in the album)

So, what do you think?
Nice way for Sol-Gerakina to learn the fine history of Gangsta Rap, or maybe dad should confiscate this one?

2 years flew by. Hope you like the gift :)

[mostblind/michael] / > sudo rm -rf /home/eirien

:P

About a year ago I wrote a post about making Windows behave more like Linux. Pretty much some small UI tweaks, and trying to simulate other Linux behavior, like “focus follows mouse”.
This feature actually makes me way more productive, and since I only use Windows at work I guess productivity is desired. I tried different third party tools, but never got the same feel as I got in Ubuntu,

The other day I had to get a new image on my computer, and I lost all apps and configuration. Of course I couldn’t find the tool I used earlier, so I had to do some googling. This landed me on a site with the title “Making Windows Usable”. (Can’t see why I didn’t put that in my query :p )

It turns out that Windows actually has this feature; it’s just not exposed through any GUI configuration. You have to edit a registry key to enable it.

Ubuntu:
System > Preferences > Windows > Select windows when the mouse moves over them

Windows XP:
regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\UserPreferencesMask

This is a little-endian bitmask. For focus-follows-mouse, add the flag 0×1. For example, if the value is 9E 3E 05 80, which is 0×80053E9E. To activate focus-follows-mouse change it to 0×80053E9F, or 9F 3E 05 80t.

Log out, and back in.

Easy right?

Last week(ish) I abandoned my photo album, today I abandon my theme. Not because I didn’t like it though. It was as good, or as bad, as everything else. Hey, I’m a Java developer. By definition I shouldn’t care about design :p  My problem though was that it broke crucial functionality.

Using the theme I used, caused the editor to leave out every line break. This resulted in a rather pour reading experience. The problem actually started when Wordpress 2.0 was introduced, but back then we found a workaround to the issue. (Thanks Christer, for applying the patch to every x.x.1 release the Wordpress team throws at us) When 2.5 was released, I couldn’t seem to find any solution. After some googling a realised that it was my theme causing this(?).

Well, found a new one. Simple, but quite alright I think. I basically tweaked an existing theme. Moved some elements to where I think they belong, added a menu and my twitter status. I had grown tired of the native blogroll display Wordpress has as well, so now I display a generated list of all my Google Reader RSS feeds. More useful for people that are interested, and no hassle to keep updated.

Hope the changes are welcomed. I will start talking about my life soon too, but the last month has been nothing but chaos.

Have a nice weekend.