Category Archives: General

markdown doclet updated to v3

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Yesterday I published a new version of markdown-doclet which fixes the issue of using custom Taglets, which was raised by a user report. I also spent some time looking into a few of the other more difficult problems I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Back to Dreamhost…

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I’ve had to move this site back to Dreamhost temporarily as I FUBAR’ed my Linode instance by executing “yum update”. Fortunately I have regular word press backups happening so I didn’t really loose much, except my temper. I was having … Continue reading →

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“60 Mario and friends” – Apple’s response

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I actually brought the previously posted “60 Mario and friends” app to Apple’s attention through their iTunes app support page. But apparently Apple doesn’t really care if their customers are being deceived. Here’s their response: Thank you for your interest … Continue reading →

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Laughing all the way to the bank… “60 Mario and friends”

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Richard Nichols

If you’ve noticed the current iTunes “game” chart this week, you would notice this dubious entry: Appearing here in the game store’s front page: The intentionally ambiguous entry is masquerading as a game, but is actually a set of sound … Continue reading →

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