1 Earth. 6.5 Billion Adventures

Excel Formula To Generate 13 Digit Barcode Check Digit

1Earth — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:20:20 +0000

I’m was preparing data in an Excel spreadsheet for import into an OpenBravoPOS database, and I needed to generate check digits for my custom barcodes. So here’s the Excel formula I came up with to generate a 13-digit barcode check digit. OpenBravoPOS I’ve been tinkering with OpenBravoPOS for a while – it’s an awesome and [...]

Garlic & Onions against Teeth Plaque?

1Earth — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:09:37 +0000

It’s a known fact that eating garlic and onions make you socially repulsive. But garlic and onions also have known curative properties. Garlic, for one, is known, and I have personal experience with this, to drastically lower blood cholesterol. The downside is that you have to take it chopped and, yes, raw – for at [...]

Mac Upgrade Circus

1Earth — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:43:53 +0000

I was called in at 9 this morning for some routine maintenance and an upgrade or two of the computer that Just Works. Mac Don’t Always Just Work I started at 9:20am – faced with the 2-year-or-so old Intel Mac Book Pro that was still running OS X Common House Cat Tiger and in desperate need of [...]

Ignoring / getting ignored by people on Facebook

1Earth — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:15:29 +0000

When you ignore people on Facebook, they pretty much disappear from your world, assuming that Facebook is the only part of your world where you ever encountered them. Ignoring people in real life is substantially less effective and much more work. Ever notice when mutual friends reply to a comment on their posts left by the Ignoree? [...]

Disable, Limit and Delete WordPress Revisions

1Earth — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:30:01 +0000

For me a major WordPress Blog annoyance is the WordPress Revisions feature. It essentially saves a copy of your post or page every time you update it. If you share my frustration, here’s how to stop or limit WordPress Revisions and clean current revisions from your database. Remember kids: Backup before you try this at [...]

A New Theme for 1Earth is Coming

1Earth — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:26:09 +0000

Ever since I switched 1EarthAdventures to WordPress way back when… erm *flipsthroughblog*, on 15 October 2005 or not too long after, I’ve been using this awesome Illacrimo Theme from Design Disease. However, this is 2010 and my blog has evolved from a Twilight-esque, emo diary in to a blog where some of the posts are [...]

Repair XP MBR with only an Ubuntu Live CD

1Earth — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:52:47 +0000

I just deleted and old Ubuntu off the Journo’s dual-boot Ubuntu/XP HP Pavillion and along with it Ubuntu’s Grub and her Master Boot Record (MBR), which of course rendered the machine useless. I had an Ubuntu 10.04 Lycid Lynx Live CD at hand (never leave home without it), so here’s how to repair an XP [...]

Blaas jou Vuvuzela – Blow your Vuvuzela lyrics translated

1Earth — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:21:26 +0000

If you friend me on Facebook you would think I was advertising Vuvuzelas, but honestly, I’m just another enthusiastic South African loving the attention that our country’s newest and loudest icon is getting. Much of the attention is very amusing and there’s so many articles, posts, rants, photos and whathaveyous out there about Vuvuzelas that [...]

Vuvuzela Set to Take Over the World

1Earth — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:59:49 +0000

It’s just the nature of being South African; we love South African things. And the biggest thing to come out of South Africa since Charelize Theron and Pronto Condoms, is the Vuvuzela! Previously the Vuvuzela was used in moderation at football games around South Africa, and thinking back to the football games I’ve seen on [...]

World Cup Also Has Football Action

1Earth — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:05:39 +0000

I’ll be the last person you’ll ever see at a screening of a regular football (soccer) game, yet, like many, I find the World Cup irresistible. And it’s not just because I’m from South Africa either. Fine, a large part of me is drawn to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa for the [...]