This is something that’s been floating around in my head since I saw the tiny little printer at the public library that they use to print out your receipt.
The idea is simple: Print out your receipt (at libraries, bookstores, etc.) on card-stock in the shape of a bookmark.
I just switched my (rather limited) JavaScript from YUI to jQuery.
jQuery took a little (a couple hours) to learn how to write something close to idiomatic code. My new code is much much smaller and easier to read.
Gerf.Org just switched to Xen. It’s running in a domU on hardware that is massively more powerful than it used to be. The original hardware (until about 3 years ago) was a 333Mhz box with 20gigs of disk-space. Since then it has been running on newer hardware. However, the hardware was flakey and getting [...]
These are instructions on how to make sparring knives in the style of Aegis Consulting. They are designed to break before bones and not poke too hard.
Warning: These are not toys. They are for practicing with. While they are safer than a real knife, they are not going to prevent injury if you do [...]
A mini-HOWTO showing how to create pop-up dialogs and get the results back from a shell script (or anything that can run a command) in Mac OS X.
I found this article about Getting things done with mutt. It talks about using the the techniques from David Allen’s productivity book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity“. I’ve been reading GTD for a week now (taking my time, you know) and think it’s pretty interesting.
Since Mutt is my favorite email [...]
I have just released version 0.8.0 of “It’s All Text!“, the Firefox extension that answers the age old question, “What happens when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingoes?”1
New Features
So I have finally submitted It’s All Text! to Babelzilla, the mozilla translation site. It took a little work to get in, though. There isn’t anything so simple that I cannot break it.
Get “It’s All Text!”
I wrote It’s All Text! for myself. When Firefox 2.0 was released it broke MozEx so I went looking for a replacement. The others weren’t very good. So I set about fixing MozEx. It was then that I realized that MozEx had way more stuff in it than I [...]
Wow! I found a blog post talking about It’s All Text! on a blog called Another 朝顔日記 written in japanese!
According to babelfish, the author found a silly bug [english] in It’s All Text! (I left out a var declaration) and is explaining the way to fix this. Neat!
Have you ever had to fill in a form on a web page and wished you could open it in an editor? If you use lots of blogs, post lots of comments or file many bugs then you probably get annoyed at the lack of true editor commands.
I’ve seen some solutions that embed a [...]
I read the The Daily WTF regularly using bloglines. When I read today’s WTF article I started to wonder, “Is this stuff real?”
I mean think about it. It has all the elements of a classic letter to Penthouse:
The guy is like you or me.
He gets an insanely good offer: “60% raise”
He follows through [...]
