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The celtickane blood alcohol content calculator has just been revamped.

» Read more: BAC Calculator Revamped

photo credit: Digger/ATL

» Read more: Windows 7 Slow Installation Tip: Disable Floppy Drive

The old javascript benchmark has now been replaced with a community-based, revamped javascript benchmark called JSBenchmark.

» Read more: JSBenchmark – A new javascript benchmarking system, now released

It was pointed out to me that Feather Ajax version 1.0.1 no longer worked with current browsers (e.g. Firefox 3.5). This was due to a change in how Firefox 3.5 handled Ajax callback functions (see changelog for more details). I have since corrected the problem and released version 1.0.2.

» Read more: Feather Ajax 1.0.2 Updates

I have an older machine that I recently converted into an Ubuntu 9.04 server for various needs.  One of those needs is to play television shows or movies onto a TV via an S-video output.  I did not want dual output or anything like that — I simply wanted a TV hooked into my machine.  Unfortunately, unlike Windows XP/Vista, Ubuntu doesn’t automatically detect S-video output.  To make the matter worse, I have an older ATI Radeon 9200 video card, which caused some drivers issues.

» Read more: S-Video TV Out with Ubuntu 9.04

The official Summer 2009 Javascript speed test results have been posted!   Check them out under the “Test Results” section of the page.  The conclusion: “Safari has taken the lead by performing about twice the speed of its nearest competitors, Chrome and Firefox.  Opera, the once champion of the speed test, has fallen from its throne to the second-to-last position.  Perhaps the most surprising is how much worse IE8 fared relative to its competitors — it was 2-3 times slower, but now is performing almost five times slower.”

Celtickane.com has officially been moved over to WordPress. I haven’t added any new content, but I have removed some older content that I didn’t feel belong anymore — if you’re looking for something that used to be here, but is now missing, contact me and I’ll consider re-adding it.

I wasn’t going to upload the new design and changes until they were complete, but it’s been three months since I first started a redesign (off-and-on), so I decided to just do it. As I have time, I’ll start 301 redirecting old pages to their new home within WordPress, removing some content, and perhaps adding a small amount of new content.