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December 27, 2009

Power adapters

Filed under: Default — Tags: — adam @ 11:16 pm UTC

When you charge an iPhone, you can use a small white cube to convert 110V AC to whatever it is the iPhone needs. When you charge a laptop, you need a “power supply”–generally a much larger brick–to do something similar. Why?

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December 20, 2009

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December 14, 2009

Some plugins cause strange characters in WordPress posts

Filed under: Default — adam @ 8:26 am UTC

This issue (characters like  in posts) affected one of my WordPress blogs for about a year and a half. Converting the database entirely to UTF-8 didn’t help. Changing settings, collations, and waving chicken legs over my keyboard didn’t help. Turns out a plugin was the culprit: Textile 2 (Improved), version 2.1.

Once I disabled this plugin, the strange characters disappeared.

December 13, 2009

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