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U.S. impressions apart from Mahara

August 11, 2014 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

The last 3.5 weeks were filled with meeting Mahara users on the East Coast of the U.S. in New York City, New York State and Boston. I had already started writing about my experience in the MUG post, but will write about that a bit more later. This time, I want to share some of […]

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The world in our office

March 28, 2012 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Wellington is quite far away from many other places and thus knowing the correct time where our colleagues are, when we can reach clients or when we can schedule a server outage is a necessity. With today’s new fangled technology viewing predefined time zones is just a mouse click away. But it doesn’t look as […]

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You are among geeks when…

January 31, 2012 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

One of our developers is going to be a dad real soon. His waiting stirred the creative juices among the other developers. Brett came up with the following “from conception to birth” scenario à la version control system (used with permission): mkdir baby cd baby git init . awk ‘BEGIN { s=”ACGT”; genes=””; srand(); for […]

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Check marks upside down

March 25, 2010 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

This is a true curiosity which caused some good laughter today. A colleague showed me his check marks in Firefox today. They were upside down and have been so for a long time. He does not have a clue why they are not the usual way. It does not matter on which web site he […]

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Konami code on Facebook

November 18, 2009 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

The instructions are: “THE FACEBOOK TRICK: press up,up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Enter key, then right click then press up and down and magic circles will appear when you make a mouse click. the only way to get rid of them are to log off or refresh the page…IT WILL WORK! […]

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