For those of you who are bothered by the comic below:

just copy and paste this into your browser address bar on the site:

javascript:if (typeof jQuery == 'undefined') {
	var jQ = document.createElement('script');
	jQ.type = 'text/javascript';
	jQ.onload=runthis;
	jQ.src = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js';
	document.body.appendChild(jQ);
} else {
	runthis();
}

function runthis() {
$('#middleContent div.s > img').attr('src', 'http://i.imgur.com/7Tvtd.png');
$('title').text('()');

 $('div.s > h1').text('()');
}

(code based on the Smashing Magazine Bookmarklet Article)

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This entry was written by Alex, posted on 11/02/2011 at 15:26, filed under Found on the Web, Javascript, web comics. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

I wanted to update Steam to purchase some games in the annual sale, and unfortunately due to some proxy-related configurations it was forced into offline mode. When the system came back, the error indicated that steam was in offline mode, but had to be in online mode to update, then it quit. Very annoying, since changing to online mode requires you to be in the steam application.

I found the solution, you go to:
/Users/$yourusername/Library/Application Support/Steam/ and locate registry.vdf

The variable you need to set is Registry / HKCU / Software / Valve / Steam / Offline, which you set to "0".

Pretty surprising to see that Steam just ports what seems to be the windows Registry format over for configuration, but it seems to work (mostly :) )

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This entry was written by Alex, posted on 31/12/2010 at 02:48, filed under OSX and tagged fixing, mac, offline mode, osx, registry, steam, valve. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

I submitted my hard-bound thesis some time ago.

Thanks to PhD comics, I now know how to describe my status to others:

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This entry was written by Alex, posted on 24/08/2010 at 15:23, filed under Academia. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.