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Semarang, Indonesia

Agnes was finally suc­cess­ful in sur­pris­ing her par­ents with a visit home. Last time she tried, they found out and ended up play­ing a prank and sur­pris­ing her! We met her dad while he was vis­it­ing her Grandma (he was gen­uinely sur­prised! I was sure he knew). We stayed a while and played with the half […]

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Singapore

Wow does time fly! It’s been almost three years since the wed­ding, which means that Nes and I are long over­due for a visit back to Indone­sia. Our itin­er­ary allows us a few days in Sin­ga­pore on the way out and four days in Hong Kong on the way back home. Air­plane pain Get­ting to South­east Asia […]

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Disable SSLv2 in IIS 6

Does work­ing with third-party ven­dors require you to have the unfor­tu­nate plea­sure of work­ing with IIS 6? Do you need to dis­able SSLv2 and frus­trated by the use­less­ness of Microsoft’s sup­port doc­u­men­ta­tion? Four sim­ple steps Open regedit.exe (Start Menu > Run > regedit) Nav­i­gate to HKey_Local_Machine > Sys­tem > Cur­rent­Con­trolSet > Con­trol > Secu­ri­tyProviders > SCHANNEL […]

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jquery-objectdiff — a jQuery plugin for comparing objects

I recently worked on a javascript project that involved a sim­ple work­flow where an unpriv­i­leged could request changes to cer­tain bits of enter­prise data. The requested changes would then route to a priv­i­leged user who would either make the requested changes or deny the request. I wanted to pro­vide a some kind of diff to […]

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Flickr developers don’t use vim

I just dis­cov­ered that you can use vim-esque (‘j’ and ‘k’) key­board short­cuts when view­ing a pho­to­stream. Neat, but back­wards! Gmail short­cuts were obvi­ously vim-inspired, ‘j’ for next, ‘k’ for pre­vi­ous. Flickr imple­mented these back­wards and my vim-trained fin­gers keep get­ting confused!

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