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About Dougal Campbell

Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-06

@gfmorris I think I feel the same way about ebay as you do about house-flipping. # @alexkingorg Have you tried the compiz window manager? Takes a lot of tweaking, but it’s pretty sweet when you get it like you like it. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-04

@zeldman Two words: Faraday Cage. Of course, the embassy should be the ones doing that… http://tinyurl.com/gqk9m # Installed #Firefox 3 Beta 2 late last night. So far, it does seem to be zippier and less memory hungry, especially with lots of tabs (~30). # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Firefox 3

Late last night, I installed Firefox 3 Beta 2. I’ve been running it all day, opening and closing tabs throughout, with a peak of around 45 tabs open, and an average somewhere around 25-30. I don’t know what they’ve done to improve the memory handling (it’s currently using 394M virtual, 161M resident, 19M shared), but the responsiveness has been awesome. In Firefox 2, my machine would have been thrashing like a dying wildebeest, slogging down … Continue reading

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-03

Just ordered some expansion packs for my DS, so I’ll be able to run homebrew games and DSLinux on it. Why? Because I can! # Drinking coffee from my Crowd Favorite mug. Gotta finish up a couple of project estimates, then dive into some server optimization… # Calling it a day. Got lots of work to dive into tomorrow. Now: time for family and food. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-01

Longhorn had a long line. Went to Tuscany Italian Grill, instead. Excellent decision. Yum. Tweet y’all next year! # Getting ready to head to Ikea to shop for a recliner. # @rslux Yes, working at home requires mucho discipline. I’m fighting that battle, too 🙂 # Ikea has a recliner that we want (matches our red leather Ikea couches), but they were out of stock. 🙁 Back in two weeks, I guess. # Powered by … Continue reading

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-31

Just caught up on 12+ pages of twitters. I might have to stop following some of you people. Don’t you ever shut up? 😉 # And that only included some of the 18 pages that I had to catch up on after we returned from traveling for 6 days… # @rands re: todo systems — have you seen ViaList? Windows client is smart/intuitive, and there’s web access, too. http://www.vialist.com/ # @rands Of course, I can … Continue reading

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-27

Got back from our three-state holiday swarm last night. "Just remember: they come, they eat, they leave!" — A Bug’s Life # Finished clearing out the 500+ spams that made it past my filters earlier. Now I can start replying. Catching up from a holiday is painful. # Powered by Twitter Tools.