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I needed to create a PDF with multiple pictures per page. The pictures had to be numbered and include a timestamp. All the photos were in... »

Today I learnt that Travis don’t like tags with spaces in them. It took me over an hour to figure out, but there it is. If... »

We had a scare when all the photos from 24th and 25th of December disappeard from our memory card. Lukily I managed to recover them using... »

So I’ve moved to jekyll, if you couldn’t guess. I’ll write up why and how I migrated when I have a bit more time. »

I’ve had some fun with git again… I was checking out a remote branch with git on the command line and couldn’t pull down updates. Eventually... »

I got stuck trying to figure out where the Visual Studio plugin Visual Studio WCF Connected Service had gone today. It turns out it’s no longer... »

We were experiencing a strange bug with a C# library with an embedded binary file. It worked on the developers machine, but not after it was... »

On Windows I prefer to use Visual Studio’s diff and merge tools. And since I use git I decided to change the default diff and merge... »

I struggled while trying to limit access to our internal omnibus Gitlab instance using the LDAP-setting user_filter:. We use nested groups in Microsoft AD to handle... »

I recently discovered that it’s impossible to install Windows 7 from a Kingston USB stick. It turns out this is a known problem with Kingston DataTravel... »

A friend showed me a problem she had with one of the pictures on her webpage, http://lenefredriksen.com/. In Safari, Chrome and Vivaldi on macOS Sierra and... »

I’ve had a problem running Scrivener on my work computer with Windows 7 since I got the computer last year. Today I finally decided to see... »

For my work computer I keep a Outlook Data File (.pst), as a place to backup email. I keep the pst-file on my network share, which... »

Today I finally found the time to go back to my blog, it’s been a busy week and a half. One of the first things I... »

I figured it would be nice to have Ghost up and running locally on my machine if I’m to mess around with themes. So today I... »

After reading more about using Discourse for comments I’ve realised that it’s not a good fit for me. There is a solution for Discourse where you... »

As I continued looking into which system to use for comments I came across a blog post by John Saddington about using Discourse for comments. What... »

After I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Toughbook CF-31 the touchpad wasn’t working. The touch screen was working, and I could connect a USB mouse... »

After playing with Ghost for a couple of days I still haven’t figured out what to do with comments. Ideally I want something like Wordpress’ built... »

When I got my brothers old TV a little while back we were using the remote for the TV-decoder to turn the TV on and off.... »

I’ve recently installed Ubuntu on my old MacBook Pro (2006), with Norwegian keyboard layout. I couldn’t write $ | and other much needed characters for a... »

I had a bit of a challenge wading through heaps of blogs and pages trying to find the easiest way to batch add a prefix to... »

When I travelled Australia as a backpacker back in 2007-2008 I did quite a few different organised tours. Most where through tour companies for backpackers, but... »

A week and a half ago now, I came across a blog post I knew I had to comment on, The Last IRRESPONSIBLE Moment. I’ve never really... »

Yet another interesting find on the interweb: Personal names around the world over at W3. It was a bit of a eye opener to me, even... »